PITTSBURGH (AP) - A southwestern Pennsylvania man has broken vertebrae in his neck and back, nine broken ribs, a bruised lung and a concussion after a deer slammed into him while he was riding his bicycle.
Sixty-five-year-old Allen Kinkead said it happened Sunday about 20 miles into a bicycle trip with five other people in Penn Township, Westmoreland County.
A deer darted across the road, slammed into Kinkead and ran off. He doesn’t remember the impact but his friends witnessed the whole thing.
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They told him he’d been “T-boned by a deer.”
Kinkead was flown to a hospital. He’s in a neck brace but says his helmet saved his life.
Kinkead’s bike is damaged but he knows how to repair it: He owns a bicycle shop that his grandfather opened in 1912.
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