Tour de Palm Springs crash kills cyclist, injures another

A car that witnesses said was driving twice the speed limit barreled into cyclists riding in California’s Tour de Palm Springs.|
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INDIO HILLS - A car seen driving down a road at twice the speed limit barreled into cyclists riding in California’s Tour de Palm Springs, killing one person and seriously injuring another, police said.

The driver was also injured in the crash Saturday morning near Indio Hills.

California Highway Patrol Sgt. Isaiah Kee told the Palm Springs newspaper the Desert News that the car was seen going 100 mph along the 100-mile charity bike ride route. It veered off the road onto the dirt shoulder then back into the path of ?cyclists, he said.

Cyclists said the sedan’s rate of speed might have meant the driver didn’t have time to avoid the cyclists, Kee said.

Michael Stearns, a spokesman for the Tour de Palm Springs, told the newspaper it didn’t have enough information to comment Saturday ?afternoon.

The names of the cyclists and driver involved have not been released.

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