Arthur Man Dies After Being Hit on Bike Friday
November 5, 2014
Car strikes man while passing another bike
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com
An Arthur man was struck while riding his bike to work last Friday and was later pronounced dead at the scene.
According to Moultrie County coroner Lynn Reed, 54-year-old Velvon J. Schrock was traveling south on county road 1800 north to work around 7 a.m. last Friday when he was struck head on by a car that was attempting to go around another bike that was heading north. Reed said that preliminarily it appeared that the driver had been focused on the bike he was passing and had not given consideration to the possibility of an oncoming bike in the southbound lane.