Longtime Pima County administrator critically injured in collision
Portrait of Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry, taken on March 29, 2017.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Pima County announced Saturday that longtime County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry was critically injured in a collision while bicycling in downtown Tucson Saturday morning.
A statement released by the county said Huckelberry was hospitalized in stable but critical condition "after being struck by a vehicle."
A Tucson Police Department spokesman said the incident was under investigation and that no additional information was immediately available.
A Tucson native, Huckelberry became county administrator in 1993. Huckelberry started working for the county in 1974 as a field engineer in the Department of Transportation.
He later became Transportation Department director in 1979 and assistant county manager for public works in 1986.
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