Bike & Build cyclist who helped build here in June killed

YOUNGSTOWN

Paige Hicks, one of four leaders of Bike & Build, which helped build a Habitat for Humanity house here in June, has been killed by a semitrailer’s wide load on a South Dakota highway.

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Bike & Build volunteer Paige Hicks

According to The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, Hicks, 21, of Chesterfield, Mo., died Tuesday on Highway 18 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota as she checked her cell-phone messages along the shoulder. She was stopped with one other cyclist at the top of a hill on the two-lane road when she was hit by a combine atop the semi, which extended into the shoulder, the South Dakota Highway Patrol told the Star Tribune.

The other cyclist was not injured.

The patrol said the truck driver didn’t see Hicks until it was too late for him to avoid hitting her, and he likely would not be charged.

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