After bicyclist killed, neighbors push for safety changes on road in Louisville's PRP neighborhood

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A man was hit and killed Monday night while riding his bike on a busy road where people have been begging for safety changes for more than a year.

Witnesses told WDRB a man and woman were riding their bikes on West Pages Lane in the Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood. The woman fell from her bike into a ditch, and the man was hit by a car, became stuck underneath the vehicle, and was dragged down the road.

"Right away you could tell that there was someone stuck under the car," said Pam Hill, who witnessed the incident. "As soon as it happened, I pulled over and my daughter and granddaughter got out of the car and just started running."

Louisville Metro Police said the vehicle continued driving for "a distance" before the driver stopped and called for help.

Witnesses said the driver stopped in a driveway about 0.7 miles from the intersection where the man was hit.

Shane Schlatter lives off West Pages Lane and said his wife was one of the people who started chasing after the car, yelling for it to stop.

"They had to actually jack the car up to get him out, I mean it was horrific," Schlatter said.

Metro Councilwoman Crystal Bast said she's been begging for something to be done to make West Pages Lane safer since she took office in 2025.

She said there have been several rollover crashes there over the years and several instances where cars drove into people's homes.

"I have fought, I have screamed, I have pounded my feet, I've begged for change for this road," Bast said.

Rumble strips and larger stop signs with lights will be added to the road eventually. Officials will also widen the white stripes on the road. Bast said this will only do so much and drivers also need to slow down.

"We can do that all day long, but at the end of the day if people aren't going to follow the laws or the rules, how do we change people's way of thinking and the way they're driving?" Bast said.

As someone who lives in the area with kids, Schlatter agrees.

"I think this is a warning and a wake-up call to people driving. You literally have people's lives in your hands, whether it's other drivers or pedestrians, and it's not worth it."

LMPD's Traffic Unit is investigating and will consult with the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office to determine whether any charges will be filed.