{"id":4091,"date":"2026-08-24T18:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:34:04","slug":"85-year-old-longmont-cyclist-hit-killed-in-diagonal-highway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4091","title":{"rendered":"85-year-old Longmont cyclist hit, killed in Diagonal Highway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Southbound Diagonal Highway reopened after an SUV crashed into an 85-year-old cyclist and killed him Monday morning south of Longmont.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 7:58 a.m. on the Diagonal near North 83rd Street, according to Trooper Hunter Mathews. The cyclist, a Longmont man, was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the SUV involved in the crash, a 33-year-old Longmont woman, wasn\u2019t injured, Mathews wrote in an email. There were no passengers in the SUV, he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>All lanes of the southbound Diagonal Highway, also signed in that area as Colorado 119, were reopened to traffic according to an alert around 11:30 a.m. on COtrip, the Colorado Department of Transportation\u2019s traffic mapping website.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4083\">The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: \u2018Bigger shocks are on the way\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highway had been blocked to southbound travelers from Fordham Street to the Niwot area\u00a0earlier Monday while troopers first responded, according to an earlier alert.<\/p>\n<p>Information about where the cyclist was riding when he was hit was not yet known, according to Mathews.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4074\">Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4089\">Ontario\u2019s premier: Canada should be ready to cut electricity, critical minerals as trade woes worsen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An SUV crashed into an 85-year-old cyclist and killed them, prompting officials to close part of the southbound Diagonal Highway south of Longmont Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-public-safety","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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