CCPD officials told 3NEWS on Tuesday that the cyclist who was hit by a semi-truck last Monday has died. No charges are expected for the driver.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A bicyclist has died following a collision with a semi-truck earlier this month on Corpus Christi\u2019s Southside, police confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n
CCPD PIO Antonio Contreras told 3NEWS that officers with the Corpus Christi Police Department were dispatched around 8:31 p.m. last Monday to the intersection of Saratoga Boulevard and Jefferson Street for a major traffic accident involving a pedal cyclist and a semi-truck.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they located the cyclist, who was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Contreras confirmed Tuesday that the cyclist later died from those injuries.<\/p>\n
Traffic investigators determined the cyclist failed to yield the right of way at a stop sign while attempting to cross Saratoga Boulevard. Police said the semi-truck was traveling eastbound on Saratoga Boulevard when it struck the cyclist.<\/p>\n
The driver of the semi-truck remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
No charges are expected for the driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No additional information has been released, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCPD officials told 3NEWS on Tuesday that the cyclist who was hit by a semi-truck last Monday has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-159077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}