Last Updated on March 19, 2023 by C-CAR
Two bicyclists were killed in a traffic collision with a suspected drunken driver in Rancho Cucamonga on Tuesday, Jan. 17, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.
At around 8:20 p.m., deputies responded to the area of Foothill Boulevard and Etiwanda Avenue and found a collision involving a Kia sedan and two bicyclists. A Sheriff’s Department statement said one of the bicyclists, a 42-year-old homeless woman from Upland, died on scene; and the other, a 41-year-old homeless man from Upland, later died at a local hospital.
The bicyclists were traveling westbound on Foothill Boulevard in the designated bicycle lane, against the flow of traffic, when the driver crashed into them and fled the scene, the statement said.
The driver, identified as 23-year-old Fontana resident Robert Gubany, was later arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving while under the influence of alcohol after he was found at the scene of another crash later that night. Gubany was being held on $250,000 bail.
The identity of the two victims has not been released. Anyone with information about the crash can contact the investigators at (909) 477-2800.
