{"id":369994,"date":"2025-12-25T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369994\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:43:27","slug":"santa-run-honors-cyclists-killed-in-crash-just-before-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369994\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Santa Run\u2019 honors cyclists killed in crash just before the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8o9gutqu4kk3ns1o.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Eve 'Santa Run' honors fallen cyclists\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/video\/fmc-7c4lixw2fi6zfc9v\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Eve &#8216;Santa Run&#8217; honors fallen cyclists<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">The North Texas triathlete community gathered on Wednesday to honor the lives of two of their fallen friends. Scott Mages and Andre Kocher were hit and killed while cycling with a group in Denton County this past Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">FRISCO, Texas &#8211; Members of the cycling community spent the morning of Christmas Eve honoring two of their friends who were struck and killed by a truck while on a group ride last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>   North Texas Cyclists Killed <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/v-tisia-pilot-point-fatal-cyclist-crash-6a_00.00.25.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dozens of people showed up for a Christmas Eve &#8220;Santa Run&#8221; on Wednesday morning in honor of Scott Mages and Andre Kocher, who died while doing what they loved.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Frisco Triathlon Club helped organize the well-attended event, which started at the Frisco Running Company on Legacy Drive between Main Street and Eldorado.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Many people wore Santa suits or hats for the 5K and 1-mile runs.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/frisco-running-race-_2025_12_24t0815ct_2c7e_mp4_08.17.08.32.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;It took me a little bit. I still haven\u2019t mentally processed everything. My heart is heavy. I don\u2019t really know what to say. I have prayed to God to give me the words to be able to speak today and to make everyone feel welcome and comfortable and just be here for everybody,&#8221; said Jeanette Caballero-Bell, the assistant manager of the Frisco Running Club.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;It was obviously tragic what happened and it\u2019s honestly every cyclist\u2019s worst nightmare. I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re an Iron Man triathlete or just somebody riding around the neighborhood. You always wonder about are you gonna get hit?&#8221; added Mark Mulch with the Frisco Triathlon Club.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Mages and Kocher were hit by a truck while riding on FM 455, east of Fritcher Road in Denton County, this past Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The two cyclists, who were members of the Frisco Triathlon Club, were on a group ride at the time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Pilot Point police said several different agencies tried to help them, but they later died at the hospital from their injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The driver of the truck is said to be cooperating with the police investigation, which is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No charges have been filed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 4&#8217;s Alex Boyer gathered information for this story by attending Wednesday&#8217;s &#8220;Santa Run.&#8221; Other details are from past news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/frisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frisco<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/denton-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denton County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve &#8216;Santa Run&#8217; honors fallen cyclists The North Texas triathlete community gathered on Wednesday to honor the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,66227,64421,784,197945,8942,44,85,29215,2489],"class_list":{"0":"post-369994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-collin-county","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-cycling","13":"tag-denton-county","14":"tag-frisco","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}