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UPDATE: Teenagers seriously injured after bikes were rear-ended near Rock Rapids

  • Kyle Martens
  • Tue August 14 2012
  • Posted Aug 14, 2012
NEAR ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa (KTIV) -

Three girls were hospitalized after authorities say they were hit by a motorcycle while riding their bikes. It happened about 9:15 p.m. Monday night in Lyon County, Iowa.

Authorities say a total of five teenage girls were about a mile north of Rock Rapids on county road K-52 when a motorcyclist came up from behind.

Sheriff Blythe Bloemendaal says 54-year-old Daryl Hasche of Rock Rapids tried to slow down, but ended up putting the motorcycle on its side. He hit three of the five teens.

17-year-old Morgan Herda, 15-year-old Mackenzie Lutmer and 17-year-old Tori Figge, all of Rock Rapids, were taken the hospital.

Herda and Lutmer were then air-lifted to Sioux Falls for what the Sheriff calls serious injuries. Hasche received minor injuries.

Bloemendaal says none of the girls had the necessary lights on their bikes for riding at night.

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Did you happen to get his name and/or badge number and report him for harassment? Between your experience and the ladies experience on the High Trestle Trail, the Polk County Sheriff office seems to have a professional ethics problem.

#7 - IaMichael posted Aug 20, 2012

Don't know if girls in right or wrong here, but statement by Lyon Co. Sheriff indicates he thinks IA law requires riders to be single file on the shoulder. A group of us were stopped by a Polk Co. Sheriff this summer and he said we must ride single file against the white line (no shoulder on road). We told him that's not what the law says. Then he said we were supposed to ride within three feet of the white line. Again we told him that's not what the law requires. Then he said well maybe it's 5 feet. Again, we told him that's not the law. He said he knows the law and we'd better obey it! Obviously, he doesn't know the law and he tried to bully us into following what he thought it was. When are our Co. Sheriffs going to learn the laws of the road?

#6 - jeff posted Aug 20, 2012

Your geography is OK, clunker; the accident was in Iowa, but the article that was linked in the prior comment was from the Sioux Falls (S Dak) newspaper, and probably had the coverage only because all of the injured parties were transported to the Sioux Falls hospital.

#5 - BicycleBill posted Aug 18, 2012

I don't know my geography the accident was in SD. 

#4 - clunker posted Aug 16, 2012

here's a little more info on it

http://www.argusleader.com/article/20120815/NEWS/308150053/No-charges-driver-who-hit-teens-bikes

#3 - solsen300 posted Aug 16, 2012

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