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Man on bicycle hit by two vehicles; one left the scene
By: Tim Murray - Tuesday, October 22, 2019

LAGRANGE – Police say a 50-year-old Lagrange man on a bicycle was struck by two vehicles...only one of which remained on the scene.

It happened at 5:25 a-m near 1425 South County Road 00 East-West.

50-year-old Richard Dean Bontrager of 200 South in Lagrange was riding his bicycle northbound when he was struck from behind by a vehicle that fled the scene.

Bontrager was lying in the northbound lane when a pickup truck driven by 66-year-old Ralph Geesaman of Lagrange struck him. Geesaman told police he didn’t see Bontrager lying there.

Bontrager was taken by ambulance to Parkview Lagrange and then flown Parkview Regional in Fort Wayne with head, arm, and other unknown injuries.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Office at 463-7491.



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