Bicyclist Killed On Niles Canyon Road Identified

FREMONT, CA — A bicyclist who died Saturday morning in a collision with a truck on a road in unincorporated Alameda County was identified today as 35-year-old Hayward resident Charles Ragan, according to the county coroner's bureau.

The collision was reported at 7:35 a.m. on Niles Canyon Road about two miles west of Main Street in Sunol, CHP Officer Derek Reed said. Ragan was pedaling east on Niles Canyon Road on a section of the road where there is no bike lane and no shoulder. The driver of a 2006 Toyota Tacoma hit Ragan from behind, according to Reed.

The Toyota's driver told CHP officers that she did not see Ragan until she hit him because the sun was in her eyes, Reed said.

The Toyota was moving at 40 to 45 mph. Ragan died at the scene.

Neither drugs nor alcohol played a role in the collision, Reed said.

— Bay City News; Image by Renee Schiavone, Patch

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