Police identify New York man killed in bicycle crash on Longboat

A bicyclist was killed Monday morning in a collision with a parked truck in the 5800 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive, authorities said.

Pete Cumming, Longboat Key's police chief, said the circumstances of the northbound cyclist’s crash with the concrete pumper truck remains under investigation. Sarasota Police, investigating the crash, identified the rider as Ridgley Harrison III, a 67-year-old New York man.

Cumming said the rider was wearing a helmet. 

The Sarasota Police Department’s traffic homicide unit is investigating the 10:45 a.m., crash. Cumming said the town’s police department has an agreement with the mainland agency for such investigations, because fatal traffic incidents in the town are rare. 

Genevieve Judge, a spokeswoman for the Sarasota Police, said Harrison was taken to Blake Memorial Hospital in Bradenton, where he was pronounced dead. The crash remains under investigation, she said on Thursday.

Gulf of Mexico Drive was closed for about 90 minutes during the duration of the initial investigation. Northbound traffic was backed up for about a 1/2 mile south of the crash scene.

Bystanders, who didn’t want to be identified, said a nurse tried to revive the cyclist after the crash.

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.