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  • Bear causes accident that kills motorcyclist (Connecticut)

    06/14/2006 8:30:20 AM PDT · by nutmeg · 49 replies · 648+ views
    The Hartford Courant ^ | June 14, 2006 | AP State Wire
    GRANBY, Conn. -- A motorcyclist was killed Tuesday morning in an accident caused by a black bear who wandered onto Route 20, town police said. Francis Osden, 56, of Barkhamsted, died in the crash, which happened just before 8 a.m. as a father and his two children were waiting at a nearby bus stop. Police said he was not wearing a helmet. Authorities said a car traveling in front of Osden hit the bear, which ran off into the woods and was not found. Osden was trying to avoid that collision and crashed, police said. The driver of the car...