A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper gets some help from a Douglas County Sheriff's officer on Monday morning at U.S. Highway 24-40 and East 1600 Road, one mile east of the Lawrence Municipal Airport, where a bicyclist was struck by a truck. The injured man was air-lifted to Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan.

Two Lawrence residents were taken to hospitals Monday following two separate car-bicycle collisions.

The first incident occurred about 10:20 a.m. near the intersection of U.S. Highway 24-40 and East 1600 Road.

Law enforcement officials said 20-year-old Lawrence resident John Phelps was riding a bicycle east on U.S. 24-40 when he started to turn left onto East 1600 Road in front of a 1990 Ford Ranger pickup. Leroy Walters, 63, Tonganoxie, was driving the truck, which also was headed east.

Phelps was alert before being transported by air ambulance to Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper T.L. Berner said. But, citing privacy laws, KU hospital officials said they could not release Phelps’ condition.

In a separate accident that occurred about 2:40 p.m. at Lawrence Avenue and Applegate Court, a 10-year-old Lawrence boy failed to stop or yield to a car driven south on Lawrence Avenue by a 79-year-old Lawrence woman. The woman was not injured. The boy was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

Lawrence Police, who said a report would not be available until today, still are investigating whether the 10-year-old was wearing a helmet.