2 Critically Injured in Calabasas Bike Crash

Two men were critically injured today when a car struck two bicyclists in Calabasas and a 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

The crash was reported just after 7 p.m. on Mulholland Highway at Old Topanga Canyon Road, according to Rey Dong, supervising dispatcher with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

Both victims, two men ages 47 and 55, both of them residents of the San Fernando Valley, were in serious condition when airlifted to a hospital, according to officials at the sheriff’s Malibu-Lost Hills Station.

The arrested man was identified as Royce Edgar of Topanga. He was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs while causing serious injury, according to the sheriff’s department.

--City News Service