SHENANDOAH, Iowa (AP) — A yearly bicycle ride across Iowa has proved dangerous for the participants. Police arrested and charged a pickup truck driver after he allegedly plowed through a campground, hitting and dragging a rider asleep inside his tent. Earlier Sunday, a bicyclist was killed when he was hit from behind by a truck along the route of the ride in western Iowa.

Police have charged a pickup truck driver with hitting and seriously injuring a Florida bicyclist who was camping after riding in the statewide biking “Ride Across Iowa” event known as RAGBRAI.

The Des Moines Register reports 55-year-old Danny Cardin, of Homer, Louisiana, was charged with serious injury by vehicle and leaving the scene of a serious injury accident after police were called to a campground in Shenandoah late Sunday. The Iowa State Patrol says Cardin’s pickup struck a tent, with 67-year-old James Foley of Jacksonville, Florida inside.  Foley was dragged about 50 feet underneath the truck.

Cardin was in the Fremont County jail Monday. Court records don’t indicate if he has a lawyer.

According to the family’s page on the GoFundMe web site, Foley suffered from a shattered pelvis and some internal bleeding and will need to remain in Omaha’s Creighton Medical Center for some time before he will be well enough to travel home.

If you’d like to help the family pay their mounting medical bills, click the photograph of Mr Foley to visit the GoFundMe page.

(Staff and wire reports)