Two cyclists killed, 11 seriously hurt after pickup truck plows into group in Arizona
Olivia Bennett
Updated on February 20, 2026
Two cyclists were killed and 11 all the more genuinely harmed when a pickup truck blasted through the gathering in Arizona over the course of the end of the week.
Pedro Quintana-Lujan, 26, was captured at the scene and accused of homicide after the lethal crash on the Cotton Path Extension in Goodyear in practically no time before 8 a.m. Saturday, NBC News said.
Police said the casualties were essential for a huge gathering of cycling fans riding along the extension when they were struck.
One lady was articulated dead at the scene, and another biker died in the wake of being hurried to a neighborhood clinic, police said.
Cops expressed one of the fatalities was a neighborhood inhabitant and the other was a guest from away.
Those hurt were hospitalized with “intense wounds,” cops told KTVK-television.
Two cyclists killed, 11 seriously hurt after pickup truck plows into group in Arizona. Pedro Quintana-Lujan, 26, was arrested at the scene and charged with manslaughter.
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Quintana-Lujan stayed at the scene after supposedly striking the cyclists, the power source said. He likewise was accused of exasperated attack and causing serious injury or demise by a moving infringement.
It isn’t clear why the driver blasted through the riders.
“These are people that are figuring out how to be solid and to be out there with companions, and presently there are individuals that aren’t returning home,” John Hogen, VP of the Burglarize Dollar Establishment, said of the cyclists to KTVK.