Bicyclist on PCH Is Struck, Killed by Car

An elderly bicyclist was struck and killed by an automobile early Saturday on a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway popular with runners and bikers, Orange County sheriff’s officials said.

Viola Hill Tucker, 78, of San Clemente was riding north between Palisades Drive and Camino Capistrano when she was hit by a two-door car going the same direction, Lt. Ted Boyne said. The driver, a 55-year-old San Juan Capistrano resident, was not suspected of wrongdoing, officials said.

The highway was closed in both directions during the investigation.

The fatality occurred in the same vicinity as an accident last month in which a hit-andrun driver plowed into two joggers, seriously injuring them. William Todd Bradshaw, 37, a transient who had been living in his car, was arrested in that case.