At 10:08 pm Monday night, 911 operators took a call for a reported auto-pedestrian crash on Magnolia Blvd at David Lane in Magnolia. Magnolia Fire responded along with MCHD. The caller said they knew they hit the bike but could not find the victim. When units arrived they found a bicycle impaled in the right front of a Mazda passenger car. . Crews found the victim about 50-feet back and about 15-feet off the roadway, between the road and the railroad tracks. He was deceased. DPS Troopers assisted Magnolia Police in the crash. The 16-year-old bicyclist was northbound on FM 1774/Magnolia Blvd. on the right side of the road. FM 1774 has two lanes north and south and a center turn lane with curbs and no shoulders. The teen was wearing dark clothes and had no light or reflector on the bicycle. The area he was riding had very little lighting with a 55 mile per hour speed limit. Montgomery County Precinct 5 Justice of the Peace Matt Masden ordered Eickenhorst Funeral Directors to transport the victim to the Montgomery County Forensic Center for autopsy. S+B Towing removed the vehicle from the scene.
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