{"id":292757,"date":"2026-06-02T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292757\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:23:09","slug":"23-year-old-man-hospitalized-after-crash-involving-bicycle-in-miami-co-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292757\/","title":{"rendered":"23-year-old man hospitalized after crash involving bicycle in Miami Co. \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">MIAMI COUNTY \u2014 A 23-year-old man was hospitalized on Friday night after a crash involving a bicycle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The crash happened at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/news\/local\/injuries-reported-after-crash-miami-county\/SP5AK6B7XRG35LG2YYVE45DH6U\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/news\/local\/injuries-reported-after-crash-miami-county\/SP5AK6B7XRG35LG2YYVE45DH6U\/\">Milton-Potsdam Road and S Rangeline Road<\/a> in Union Township around 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">According to a crash report obtained by News Center 7, a Honda CRV and a bicyclist were traveling westbound on Milton-Potsdam Road, nearing the intersection of S Rangeline Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The driver of the Honda, identified as 43-year-old Ashley Loper, tried to pass the bicyclist, identified as 23-year-old Hunter Sheafer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">As Sheafer tried to make a left turn onto S Rangeline Road, Loper struck the bicyclist, causing him to go into a ditch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Sheafer was transported to Miami Valley Hospital by CareFlight with a possible head injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Loper was cited with passing within 100 ft of or traversing any intersection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI COUNTY \u2014 A 23-year-old man was hospitalized on Friday night after a crash involving a bicycle. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123579,123578,123573,123575,123576,123574,123577,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-292757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-23-year-old-male","tag-ashley-loper","tag-bicycle-crash","tag-careflight","tag-head-injury","tag-honda-crv","tag-hunter-sheafer","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}