A U.S.
cyclist who pedaled across 50-plus countries for peace and charity
was run over and killed in Russia by a drunken truck driver,
ITAR-Tass news agency said Friday.
Ron
McGerity, 61, was the victim of a hit-and-run driver on a
federal highway from Kostroma to Ivanovo in central Russia,
the agency said, citing Ivanovo police.
The driver,
whose name was withheld, was soon apprehended by traffic police, who
allege he was drunk.
McGerity
arrived in Russia planning to tour all of the Golden Ring —
a set of ancient towns surrounding Moscow, all popular tourist
destinations full of historical and architectural landmarks —
on his custom-made Swiss bike.
The Boston
native had been staging cycling expeditions to promote peace
and raise money for various charities since 1995.
He had
toured four continents in that time, visiting countries as diverse as
Canada, Egypt, Israel, France, Japan and Norway.
The most
recent photo on his Facebook page, BikerOnTheRoad, is dated Tuesday
and shows McGerity kicking back on his bike in front of the
Lenin Mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square.
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