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Aug 17, 2009 7:51 pm US/Central
Police: Bicyclist Gets Stuck In Car Window & Dies
GRAND PRAIRIE (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Grand Prairie police say Vincent Riojas struck a bicyclist with his car, who then became lodged in the car's back seat and died.
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Bicyclist Ronnie Monroe Keller died after being struck by a car.
Texas Dept. of Public Safety
A Grand Prairie bicyclist was killed Saturday when a car hit him and he became lodged in one of its windows, police said.
Grand Prairie police say just after 9 p.m. Saturday, 27-year-old Vincent Paul Riojas was driving on Main Street when he drifted across the center stripe and hit a bicyclist head-on.
Police say the bicyclist, Ronnie Monroe Keller, was thrown into the car's windshield, over the roof, and through its back window. Keller then got partially stuck in the back seat, according to officers.
Police say instead of stopping, Riojas drove home and tried to hide the car in a side yard of his house with Keller still lodged inside.
Riojas' relatives found Keller critically injured in the car and called police. Riojas was arrested.
Paramedics took Keller to a Dallas hospital, but he died in the ambulance.
Officers say they think Riojas was drunk at the time of the wreck. They drew blood, but say the lab report will not be ready for about four weeks.
Riojas is in the Grand Prairie Jail, bieng held on $150,000 bond. He's charged with intoxication manslaughter, resisting arrest and failure to stop and render aid.
In 2001,
a Fort Worth woman struck a pedestrian who became lodged in the windshield of her car. Chante Mallard continued driving and parked her car in her garage with Gregory Biggs still stuck there. Biggs died a few days later. Mallard was convicted of murder and is now serving a 50-year sentence.
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