Cyclist killed in West Meade traffic crash Tuesday night

A Nashville cyclist was killed in a traffic collision in West Meade on Tuesday night.

According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, at approximately 7:15 p.m., 64-year-old Ronald Laird was traveling north on Robin Hill Road when he “cycled through the stop sign and collided with the passenger door of a Kia Optima that was eastbound on Jocelyn Hollow Road.”

The Optima did not have a stop sign, and according to witnesses, the unidentified driver “appeared to be going the speed limit of 25 mph.”

Laird, who was wearing a helmet, was the last of four riders who traveled through the intersection, all of whom ran the stop sign. Laird was transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center where he died from injuries sustained during the crash.