A group ride was attacked tonight on a stretch of north-suburban road popular with competitive and recreational cyclists.

Jason Schisler (Vision Quest) tells me that about 30 riders on the Tuesday night Alberto’s ride were on St. Mary’s Road north of Highway 60 when “a dark gray pick-up passed at a high rate of speed with the horn blaring and then seemingly deliberately veered into the group rotating at the front of the pack, taking down the first third of the group.”

The truck did not stop. Cyclists pursued but did not get close enough to take the model or license plate.

The truck struck Brendan George, owner of Alberto’s Cycles, who was at the front of the rotation, rotating clockwise, and those riders rotating behind him stacked up as a result. Schisler says he was in the gatekeeper’s slot and was the last to land on the pile. He estimates they had been going about 28 mph.

Injuries were limited to cuts, scrapes and a swollen wrist.  Lake County sheriff’s deputies were quick on the scene to take control, and no ambulance was needed.

Anyone with information should call the sheriff’s office at (847) 377-4000.

Another hit-and-run was reported in Barrington Hills on Sunday, Aug. 3. A gray pick-up towing a white horse trailer struck the leaders of a nine-rider group on Bateman Road near County Line Road, breaking bones. Witnesses are asked to contact Barrington Hills police Lt. Rich Semelsberger at (847) 551-3006.

Coincidentally, Tuesday night’s attack took place less than a mile up the road from where cyclists, myself included, say there were attacked in September. Prosecutors charged the driver in that incident, Thomas Lynch, with seven felonies. His trial is scheduled to start Monday, Aug. 25.