Two bicyclists died on Oregon highways in recent weeks after being struck by the drivers of pickup trucks.
The first crash happened on July 31 on Interstate 5 near milepost 133 in Douglas County.
Thomas Lee Sodders, 66, of Roseburg, was driving south in a black Toyota Tundra when he struck bicyclist Justin Jay Little, 42, of Cypress, California, who was in the fast lane for an unknown reason.
Little was declared dead at the scene. Sodders reported minor injuries and was not taken to a hospital. A passenger in his vehicle, Christine Ann Graham, 62, also of Roseburg, went to a hospital with minor injuries.
On Aug. 1, Robert Patrick McGee, 69, of New Pine Creek in southern Oregon was riding south on U.S. 395 near milepost 157 when a white GMC 3500 HD pickup truck driven by Greg Alan Stile