A motorcyclist collided with a bear on Highway 97

A motorcyclist was miraculously not seriously hurt in a collision with a black bear.

100 Mile House RCMP received the call for the accident on July 22, where the driver of a motorbike struck a black bear that ran out onto Highway 97 near Canim Hendrix Lake Road.

Police and Emergency Services attended and said the driver of the motorbike was taken to hospital with undetermined injuries that were believed to be non-life-threatening.

RCMP say the bear did not survive.

–Files by Teryn Midzain, My Cariboo Now

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