WINONA Minn. – A 19-year-old bicyclist was hit so hard by a car that she was catapulted up onto the windshield. She then landed on the pavement. A witness told police the driver pulled over. asked if the bicyclist were OK. said she was “so sorry” and drove off. The bicyclist, meanwhile, had made her way to the sidewalk because her stomach was upset. When she got up, the driver was gone. A witness described the car as a small white coupe. This was about 2:25 p.m. at Broadway Street and Mankato Avenue on the Far East Side. The driver, according to the witnesses, was a white woman, about 5-foot-8, probably in her 30s, maybe 40s, with dark blond hair with a little orange. The bicyclist went to the hospital with road rashes and bruises on a shoulder, a leg, her left side, a knee and elbow.
