Carrabelle bicyclist struck and killed by pick-up
A 58-year-old Carrabelle man riding a bicycle out of his driveway on County Road 67 was struck and killed by a pickup truck Wednesday afternoon.
According to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol, at about 5:35 p.m. the bicyclist was traveling east out of a driveway in the 1600 block of CR 67 when he failed to yield the right of way to a pick-up traveling southbound on CR 67 near Dingler Court.
The truck was driven by a 38-year-old Apalachicola man, who was traveling with one passenger, a 34-year-old female from Kinard. Both were wearing seatbelts and neither was injured in the collision.
The report said the bicyclist entered the path of travel of the truck, and was struck by the truck’s front right bumper.
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Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.