RURAL FLOYD COUNTY – A Charles City man is dead after being struck by a car as he was riding his bike on Highway 14 in Floyd county.
According to a report, on July 3 at about 8:30 PM, 16-year-old Austin Staudt of Rockford, Iowa was eastbound on Highway 14 at March Avenue, a few miles west of Charles City. Brian Guy Lauterbach, age 55, was also traveling east on Highway 14 while riding a bicycle, when he was struck by Staudt’s 2001 Toyota Camry.
Lauterbach was transported to Floyd County Medical Center in Charles City and pronounced dead. Staudt’s Camry was towed from the accident scene by Marzen’s Towing.
The Iowa State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office AMR Ambulance and the Charles City Fire Department. The accident remains under investigation, and no charges nor citations have been filed at this time.
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This culture needs a complete overhaul. The sadness and loss of life due to this poorly designed system are unbearable. When? When? When?
American towns, cities, roads are built for a 1950’s culture. Americans were born and raised to drive cars everywhere. We have the road system to prove it. In Europe and elsewhere across the world, people walk, jog, or bike way more than (lazy) Americans. Here, people are mocked or thought less of for being on a bike or walking to a destination. Cars are status symbols for people with low self-esteem to begin with. Meanwhile, we are taxed to death to keep up this antiquated road system (see the crumbling county roads and gravel roads). Cars are the biggest pits (next to a house) that you can lose your money in. It’s a shame our society is stuck in this mindset.
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And then we paint lines on the roads for bikes and people here complain.
@SUCKS-you must be high again or still if you think some paint on the road is going to make one bit of difference. People drive cars and text and talk on the phone, or else they are high on drugs, what the hell makes you think they will pay any attention to painted signs. A lot of them are driving without a license and have no insurance. They could give a crap. If they hit someone they will be back on the street before they hit the ground.
Wow, are we a bit sensitive or what?
LVS isn’t sensitive NJ Resident, he is just a case where the fastest sperm also happend to be the dumbass sperm.
Now I am not saying that he is stupid, just that LVS has very bad luck when it comes to thinking.
LVS sure like to stereotype. In a post a couple days ago he said that everybody that rides bikes does not obey the law. They run stop signs ride the wrong way on the road and are basically a nuisance. In the post above he says people that drive cars are too busy texting on the phone or two high on drugs to pay attention to what they are doing. He does not seem to have the ability to see the entire picture. Only what is narrow vision will allow him to see.
@Matt-you comment are not necessarily accurate. As a child growing up here I rode a bike everywhere I went and then later walked to the downtown area for High School. I never once rode a bus or had a ride to school. In grade school and junior high I rode a bike. Then in the 70’s I lived in Charles City and rode a bike everywhere including going to work. Bikes and walking were a way of life. The car thing never really started until the late 70’s and 80’s.
If you really did ride your bike that much I would think you would have a little bit more compassion for the bicyclist. It is pretty sad that if you saw a bicycle painted on the road it would not make you more aware of bicyclists. Are you too busy texting or talking on the phone while you drive or are you too high on drugs to notice?
@SUCKS-I have lots of compassion for bike riders as long as they obey the rules. You are hung up on everyone using drugs because you are an addict. I told you before (you were probably high and don’t remember) that I don’t drink and I don’t do drugs. I also do not text or talk on my phone while driving. Sober up and pay attention.
LVS-Are you losing it! You said “People drive cars and text and talk on the phone, or else they are high on drugs, what the hell makes you think they will pay any attention to painted signs” So in your world of stereotyping if you are a person and you drive you must be doing one of these. I don’t see where it says “some people,” it says people! You should learn not to stereotype, you do it way too often and by the way this is not Iowa sucks. You should lose your fascination with him/her…
LVS (Skeksis) is reluctant to unify with Iowa Sucks (urRu) who represents the inevitable rationality LVS fears most. The coming together of LVS and Iowa Sucks (urSkeks) signifies the end a saga. The sooner we can get the Skeksis and urRu Mystics together, the sooner our world moves forward. 🙂
@Viking-I was speaking about people in general and I think you damn well know it. You are just trying to start crap again. If it makes you feel better (Some people). Is that better. Nothing worse than a damn busy body. Especially someone who is a Viking fan. Just show what a loser you are.
@Philly-as usual your post makes no sense at all. A little high today are you? It must be from inhaling all those motorcycle fumes. Vrooom, vrooom.
LVS-I really am not trying to start crap, just trying to prove a point on how some people stereotype too much. Just because there are bad eggs does not mean all the eggs in the basket are bad and sometimes, in my opinion, some people seem to focus too much on the bad eggs and not enough on the good eggs. I should not have made it personal to just you, my bad, and I apologize for that. Also being a Viking fan does not make me or anyone else a loser. See my point?