MILWAUKEE – Ryan Lipscomb lived to tell how it felt to have a truck run over his head. “Really strange,” he said.
Lipscomb, 26 of Seattle, suffered a concussion but was otherwise unhurt. He was shaken up, though, especially after he saw his mangled bike helmet.
Lipscomb, a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was riding down a bike path in Madison on Friday afternoon. As he approached an intersection, he said, he noticed the oncoming delivery truck preparing to make a right turn in front of him.
The truck wasn’t going to stop, Lipscomb said, so he slammed on his brakes, flipping his bike and landing in the street.
A moment later the truck rolled over his head.
“I didn’t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head,” he told The Capital Times newspaper. “It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head.”
His black helmet was flattened, tread marks visible on the cracked frame.
Lipscomb was taken to a hospital and released about three hours later.
Police spokesman Mike Hanson said Tuesday there haven’t been any arrests in the case because investigators haven’t been able to identity the truck driver.
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