2 cyclists training for Cops for Cancer ride seriously injured in Prince George hit-and-run

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 08, 2025 2:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

RCMP successful Prince George, B.C., accidental a antheral is successful custody pursuing a hit-and-run that earnestly injured two cyclists — one of them a constabulary serviceman — who were grooming for a foundation event.

Mounties said the collision took spot near the intersection of Ospika Boulevard North and McRae Avenue astir 9 a.m. PT Monday. 

The two cyclists were riding connected the broadside of the roadworthy erstwhile they were struck, police said. The pair was taken to infirmary with superior injuries.  

Officers located a fishy conveyance — a newer model, achromatic Ram 1500 truck — and took a antheral into custody, constabulary said.

Mounties said Monday that the injured cyclists are an RCMP serviceman and a assemblage subordinate who were connected a grooming thrust for the Cops for Cancer Tour de North fundraiser.

"This incidental has impacted america connected a fig of levels today, arsenic we enactment to implicit a fulsome probe portion astatine the aforesaid clip trying to sorb the accusation that a subordinate of our policing household was 1 of those injured,"  Supt. Darin Rappel, serviceman successful complaint of the Prince George RCMP, said successful a statement.

"Investigations specified arsenic this instrumentality connected a antithetic nuance than we typically experience."

Ron Gallo, who has participated successful past Cops for Cancer rides, said the victims were bully cyclists. One of them, helium said, had a radar instrumentality connected their motorcycle to pass of objects approaching from behind. 

Gallo described the collision arsenic a cyclist's "worst nightmare."

"Every cyclist astatine immoderate level puts that conception into the backmost of their caput erstwhile they get connected their motorcycle that they can't power whether oregon not they're really going to marque it home," helium said. 

"At immoderate level, that is simply a existent thought that cyclists have, and the crushed wherefore is due to the fact that incidents similar these proceed to happen."

Cops for Cancer Tour de North is simply a seven-day lawsuit where police agencies and exigency work unit cycle across bluish B.C. to rise funds for childhood crab probe and enactment services astatine the Canadian Cancer Society.

"Since opening their grooming successful May, our riders person formed a close-knit team, agreed by a shared intent of changing the aboriginal of puerility crab by raising funds, anticipation and awareness,"  said Laura Nelson, manager for Cops for Cancer, successful a statement.

"The 2 riders injured are not lone valued teammates — they are assemblage leaders and relation models dedicated to making a difference. This tragic incidental is felt profoundly by the Canadian Cancer Society and the Cops for Cancer community."

The foundation thrust is acceptable to hap successful September.