SUV slams into bicyclists in crash caught on video, police say

DALLAS -- Two bicyclists are live aft a horrifying hit-and-run clang adjacent the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

Police said the driver, who has been identified arsenic Benjamin Hylander, is suspected of driving drunk.

"And, each of a sudden, I get pushed forward, and I commencement feeling myself falling to the right," said Tom Geppert, 1 of the bicyclists.

"And honestly, that is the past happening I remember. The adjacent happening I retrieve is the, you know, ER, doc implicit maine asking maine with, you know, what's going on."

Geppert, who is besides battling prostate cancer, rides with the Grapevine Chain Gang.

After helium was hit, video shows him being tally implicit by the SUV. He was near unconscious and aching.

"I'm guessing the motorcycle lifted the car up truthful that by the clip it rolled implicit my thighs, it was already benignant of astatine a tallness erstwhile it didn't crush my thighs,' Geppert said.

Police said Hylander near the country of the crash.

A woman, who has been identified arsenic Deborah Jo Eads, was besides injured.

Airport constabulary said her injuries were non-life-threatening.

Police said Hylander's SUV had 8 beers wrong and that helium admitted to drinking.

According to police, helium failed a tract sobriety trial and his humor intoxicant contented was astir 2 times the ineligible limit.

"I've been riding 4000 miles a twelvemonth for 20 years, and I've ne'er had an enactment with a car before. And astir radical don't bash brainsick things similar that travel up and tally into you from behind. When you're going 20 miles an hour, you know, you know, it's conscionable it's it's crazy," Geppert said.

Hylander was being held successful the Tarrant County Jail connected aggregate charges related to the crash.