{"id":789088,"date":"2026-05-11T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/789088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:18:18","slug":"bicyclist-killed-in-sr-26-crash-near-la-crosse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/789088\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist Killed In SR-26 Crash Near La Crosse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bicyclist is dead after being struck by a car near the Adams County line late Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington State Patrol says it happened at just before 11 p.m. on State Route 26 a few miles south of LaCrosse when a sedan driven by 55-year-old Christopher Finnestead of Damascus, Ore. struck the 42-year-old male cyclist from Spokane, who was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/attachment-900.jpg\" alt=\"NewsRadio 560 KPQ logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Finnestead and his lone passenger were uninjured in the collision, and the State Patrol is withholding the name of the decedent pending next on kin notifications.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say impairment was not a factor in the accident, but they&#8217;re still investigating what might have caused the fatal crash.<\/p>\n<p>10 Safety Tips for Pedestrians and Drivers That You Need to Know<\/p>\n<p>Tragedy happens each day, but with a little preparedness from each side, we can try to make our roads a bit safer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Toni Gee, TSM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bicyclist is dead after being struck by a car near the Adams County line late Sunday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":789089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,322425,241849,2961,224,5337,50,322426],"class_list":{"0":"post-789088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-fatality-accident","11":"tag-kpq-news","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-state-route-26"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116556851407854184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}