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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110608/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_bear
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago)
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― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago)
oh shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago)
" The bear also died" - :(
― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago)
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― buzza, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago)
'allota fur in the took eyh?"
― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago)
best part is when the bear goes through the second windshield
― flopson, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago)
I wonder if they made use of the blubber after
― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago)
flying bear, what's on your ipod?
― Muttley vs. Mumbly (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 9 June 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago)
bear don't fly at me
― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago)
a friend of mine from long beach claimed to have grown up with a girl who was unlucky enough to be on the freeway when a suicidal homeless man set himself on fire and jumped off an overpass. he fell through her windshield. the car swerved out of control and hit the median. her dad was driving and died. the homeless man died. she was left scarred for life.
i am not sure if this is apocryphal or not but i'd take a bear in the face over a flaming human any day.
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 9 June 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago)
also: hoverbear attack!
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 9 June 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago)