Cyclist Killed on Western Highway

Another bicycle rider has been killed on the highway, this one occurring just after noon today.

34-year-old Elvis Cadle reported to police that sometime after midday today, he was driving his Mitsubishi pickup truck towards Spanish Lookout when about a quarter mile from the Iguana Creek Bridge he overtook two vehicles. That's when he saw bicycle rider Jarret Ireland coming in the opposite direction. He hit him head on, and Ireland died on the spot.

Cadle has been charged with driving without due care and attention, manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct.