MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — A life was lost along the corner of Joe Knight Drive and Medical Center Parkway Saturday Feb. 3 .
“Actually, the day that the accident happened I had ridden my bike to work,” said Sarah Lovett. “It was a gorgeous day.”
Lovett soon learned the news about a crash as she left work that day.
“I got off at 1:30 p.m. and I started checking my phone and it had blown up with all these calls,” she said. “My daughter from California was like, ‘Mom, are you guys okay?’”
According to Murfreesboro Police, 76-year-old Terry Sague was part of a group of cyclists waiting on the sidewalk on their recumbent bikes when a car swerved, jumped a curb, and ran into them.
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“They just were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Lovett. “It was just they thought they were doing the right, safe thing.”
Sague was killed while another cyclist was taken to the hospital.
“I think the hardest thing is that people instantly blamed the cyclists…instantly,” said Lovett.