Police fielded complaints that a pickup truck was being driven erratically just minutes before the vehicle slammed into a group of bicyclists in western Michigan, killing five, authorities said. Authorities began receiving calls about the blue pickup truck about 30 minutes before the crash, with people complaining “about the manner in which that vehicle was being driven”, Getting said. Several agencies were searching for the pickup when the first report of the crash came in just after 6.30pm, he said. “I saw a bunch of bikes hit the front of his truck and a couple of them flew,” Eberhard told WOOD-TV. Markus Eberhard was leaving a nearby park after fishing and said he nearly was hit by the pickup.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2016 14:03 UTC