Austin cyclist dies on Natchez Trace

BOONEVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Authorities said an Austin bicyclist who died after being struck by a vehicle on the Natchez Trace Parkway is at least the second person this year killed in a collision with a car on the scenic road.

David B. Allison Sr., a 48-year-old Mississippi native living in Austin, was struck from behind Friday by a 2001 Ford Escape in Prentiss County, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.

Trace authorities said the vehicle hit Allison while trying to pass him.

In April, 51-year-old cyclist Esther Hagemen of the Netherlands was hit and killed by an SUV while riding her bike in Chickasaw County.

Allison was born in Meridian but had been living in Austin.