Cyclist recovering after colliding with black bear

[True Dough]

A very Canadian story. Could have also been a moose or a beaver.

British Columbia cyclist Kevin Milner was rounding a downhill corner on a North Vancouver trail last Monday evening when he slammed into another road user crossing in front of him.

The collision -- which sent Milner flying and left him with a broken scapula, cardiac contusion and other injuries -- didn't involve a car or another cyclist. Milner's bike had T-boned a black bear.

"The last thing I saw of the bear before the accident was just him running. I can see his muscles as he was charging across the road, and I just hit him right behind the shoulder blade and then I kind of launched myself over top of him," said Milner, whose expects it will take six weeks to recover.

Milner's accident on the Seymour Demonstration Forest trail was unusual, but authorities are warning that with spring in full swing, bears across B.C. are emerging from their dens and encounters with humans are on the rise.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/cyclist-recovers-after-t-boning-a-bear-as-spring-brings-spike-in-ursine-encounters-1.6408021

[3catwoman3]

1. I hope the bear is OK.

[applegrove]

2. The bear hung around for a bit. Another person came by on a motorized bicycle and the

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guy got on that and gave the stranger his bike and they made it to civilization. He could not use his legs so good that there was a motorized bike in the mix. But the bear was walking so it wasn't as hurt as the cyclist.

[Phoenix61]

3. That happened several years ago where I live. Bears can

run incredibly fast when they are crossing a busy road.

[Wonder Why]

4. Some pedestrians don't look both ways before crossing the street.

[True Dough]

5. Clearly,

that bear should have been written up for jaywalking!