Cyclist Rushed To Hospital Following Crash With UPS Truck
POSTED: 6:18 pm EDT August 11,
2007
UPDATED: 6:32 pm EDT August 11,
2007
PHILADELPHIA -- Saturday was a perfect day for a bike ride. But for a 40-year-old cyclist in Southwest Philadelphia, the activity almost turned deadly.As a man was riding his bicycle along the 4500 block of Island Avenue just before noon, he and a UPS truck collided.The driver of the UPS truck stopped and waited for police to arrive.
The bicyclist was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with head injuries, but is expected to be all right.The front of the UPS truck was severely damaged.The cause of the accident is under investigation.
