DOMESTIC NEWSJUNE 8, 2011 / 9:14 AM / 8 YEARS AGO
Flying bear kills two Canadians in freak accident
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Two Canadians died instantly in a freak accident when a car hit a 440-pound (200-kg) black bear and sent the animal flying straight through the windshield of an oncoming vehicle, local media said Wednesday.
The bear’s body hit the 25-year-old driver and a 40-year-old man sitting behind her and then shot out of the back window. The bear also died.
The accident happened Monday night in a rural area about 25 miles north of the federal capital Ottawa.
“We don’t see (this) often, even if we live in the country. Lots of deer, but collisions with a bear and two people died? That’s really rare,” local police spokesman Martin Fournel told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Collisions between vehicles and animals are common in Canada, which has a healthy population of large wild animals such as moose and deer.
Funny thing but for real, past summer, when I was doing overtime at the emergency of the hospital I work, some guy came in with the ambulance because he did hit a bear while rinding his motocross in the woods. The bear ran but the guy was pretty injured from the impact.