GRIDLEY, CA (MPG) - Shortly after noon, on Monday, July 18, 2022, a vehicle versus pedestrian accident sent first responders to Hwy 99, between Spruce and Hazel streets.

The accident involved a female, Josie Wright, age 22, who was riding a bicycle across the lanes of Hwy 99. The driver of the vehicle involved, a white Chevy pick-up truck, asked to have their name withheld for privacy, but recounted the details of the accident from her perspective.

Still shaking from the encounter, the female driver said that she was driving in the left, southbound lane of Hwy 99 when suddenly the woman on the bike slammed into the driver’s side of the truck. Startled, at first the driver was unaware of what had hit her vehicle. After discovering that it was an individual on a bike, the driver shares that she believes that the injured party hit the driver’s-side mirror, which was shattered, and scrapes along the side of the truck suggest that the bike may have hit the side of the vehicle during the accident.

First responders including Butte County EMT, multiple Gridley Police Department officers, and CALFIRE Butte Unit/Gridley Fire Department Ladder Truck 74 were on scene within moments of the call. The injured party was observed laying in the turning lane, between Napa Butte Auto and Fastrip. When the Herald arrived on scene, EMT’s were assessing her condition and preparing her for transport to a local hospital for treatment of her injuries.

Gridley PD took the bike into possession and the driver was released from the scene.