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An unidentified middle-aged male bicyclist was trapped under a "Girls Gone Wild" full-size charter bus Tuesday night for about 20 minutes at the intersection of Burlington and Linn streets.
The Iowa City Fire Department received a call at 8:20 p.m. Tuesday that a "Girls Gone Wild" tour bus collided with a bicyclist after it turned right onto Linn Street.
The accident remains under investigation, and the name of the bicyclist has not been released. The extent of injuries suffered by the bicyclist also is unknown, according to an Iowa City Police Department report.
The bicyclist also was turning right onto Linn Street right next to the bus, according to the Iowa City Fire Department incident report.
After colliding, the bicyclist was trapped, lying on his back with the bus's front right steering tire partially on top of his torso and legs. The fire department used two box cribs and air bags to lift the bus about four inches to extricate the man.
The victim was then taken to University Hospitals by Johnson County Ambulance at about 8:40 p.m.
Iowa City resident Mark Furman, 53, said he saw the "Girls Gone Wild" bus drive by and minutes later heard sirens. He said he didn't know what was going on, but he had his camera with him in his truck's tool box and was about a block away from the incident, so he grabbed his camera and ran to the scene.
"I saw the individual lying under the bus's front right tire," he said, adding that the man looked to be in his 50s. "He was not moving -- I thought I was taking pictures of a dead man -- but I kept taking pictures until my film ran out. I wanted to try to photo document the accident."
The fire department arrived at the scene less than two minutes after receiving the call and left the scene about two hours after arriving.
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