Bicyclist dies after being struck by car on Palm Coast Parkway

The cyclist, a 59-year-old Palm Coast resident, was crossing Palm Coast Parkway at its intersection with Boulder Rock Drive.

By Jonathan Simmons
| 9:05 a.m. March 6, 2017

The bicyclist was heading south across Palm Coast Parkway at its intersection with Boulder Rock Drive when he was struck. (Image from Google Maps)

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A 59-year-old Palm Coast man died the night of March 5 after a car struck him he tried to cross Palm Coast Parkway with his bicycle. The man's name has not yet been released.

The crash happened at about 6:45 p.m. The cyclist was at the northwest corner of the intersection of Palm Coast Parkway and Boulder Rock Drive, and tried to cross southward across Palm Coast Parkway at the crosswalk, but did not have a crossing signal, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.

Palm Coast resident Nicholas Malkowskie, 17, was driving west on Palm Coast Parkway in a a 2010 Dodge Nitro, and struck the bicyclist when the cyclist "failed to yield the right of way" to the Dodge, according to the FHP report.

Rescuers took the bicyclist by ambulance to Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach, where he died. Malkowskie was not injured, according to the report.