LEOTI, Kan. (AP) — A driver has struck and killed a California man as he biked across Kansas during a cross-country race.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says 61-year-old Eric Fishbein, of San Luis Obispo, California, was killed Saturday night. The patrol says in a crash report that a car hit the bicyclist from behind on Kansas 96, about eight miles east of Leoti near the state’s western border with Colorado.

Fishbein was competing in the 4,300-mile Trans Am Bike Race, which began June 3.

The patrol says the car’s 25-year-old driver and a 27-year-old passenger were taken to a hospital with possible injuries. A 2-year-old boy also was in the car, but wasn’t hurt.