Michigan Man Dies In Florida While Delivering Free Bikes To Kids

CBS Miami

December 13, 2022

A Michigan Army veteran who turned his life around with a bike shop died in a crash while delivering free bikes to children in southwest Florida affected by Hurricane Ian.

Steven Pringle, 57, was killed in Punta Gorda on November 23rd, a few weeks after a profile in the Detroit Free Press described how his passion for fixing bikes had touched many people in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

"One lady said, 'We couldn't afford a bicycle, and your father gave my son a bicycle.' I was really blown away at the impact that he had," Pringle's son, Jason Pringle, told the Free Press last week.

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