Two die after truck driver slams into more than a dozen cyclists, Arizona cops say

Two people died and 11 were hurt when a pickup truck plowed into a group of bicyclists crossing a Goodyear bridge, Arizona police reported.

A man and woman died in the crash Saturday, Feb. 25, Goodyear police said in a news release. The driver of the pickup truck, remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.

Pedro Quintana-Lujan, 26, was arrested on charges including manslaughter, police said in a later news release.

His truck hit the bicyclists at about 8:15 a.m. as they crossed the bridge, KNXV reported. All of those hit were adults. A Goodyear woman died at the scene, and a man visiting from out of state died later at a hospital.

“Many of those people are my customers so obviously I’m very much concerned,” Brandon van Leuven, the co-owner of Trek Bicycle Store of West Phoenix, told KPNX. “Yes incidents do happen, but to hear the amount of people and when a car is involved it was pretty shocking.”

Police did not say how the crash occurred but an investigation continues, the release said.

Goodyear is a city of 95,000 people about 20 miles west of Phoenix.

This story was originally published February 26, 2023 at 10:09 AM with the headline "Two die after truck driver slams into more than a dozen cyclists, Arizona cops say."