A western Kansas driver hit a bicycle rider on Sunday in Greeley County.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, “A 2008 Ford Explorer driven by 86-year old Mildred Opal Waldren of Tribune was traveling east bound on K96, a mile west of Tribune. She was observing oncoming traffic and did not see a bicyclist traveling in her lane. The Explorer hit the bicycle rider, Charles E Culbertson, age 62, of Pitsford, New York with the right front of  the vehicle. Culbertson landed in south ditch. He was airlifted to Swedish Hospital in Denver with critical injuries.”