An update on a story from last year:
Driver gets probation in bike collision case By ANNE JUNGEN / La Crosse
Tribune
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/02/27/news/z04truck0227.txt
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VIROQUA, Wis. — A Viroqua motorist accused of hitting and injuring a
bicyclist in Vernon County last July received a year’s probation after
pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge.
Vernon County Circuit Judge Michael Rosborough withheld sentence Monday
and handed down probation to Alan Sagler, 52, for misdemeanor reckless
driving causing bodily harm. Sagler also must pay a $300 fine and
perform 100 hours of community service.
Sagler was driving a pickup truck pulling a trailer July 7, 2007, on
Hwy. K near Chaseburg, Wis., when he struck bicyclist John Raub, 35,
according to the criminal complaint.
Raub was thrown from the bicycle and treated for a compression fracture
to his back and a fractured ankle.
Raub and three other bicyclists said they were traveling between 40 and
45 mph on the steep and winding road and Sagler was driving at 50 to 55
mph, according to the complaint. The road has a posted 35 mph speed limit.
Sagler did not stop and later told Vernon County sheriff’s investigators
he was unaware he struck Raub.
But one of the cyclists said Sagler was speeding and honking his horn
before he passed the group and sideswiped Raub.
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Cathy Van Maren
Upward Bound
176 Murphy
UW-L
La Crosse, WI 54601
608 785-8539
608 785-8757 (fax)
www.uwlax.edu/UpBound
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