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Never, ever forget your helmet: Cyclist's horrific deer crash
caught on camera
DIR By: Ghosttruck
Date: January 29, 2019, 11:02 am
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"If a bicyclist is going downhill at forty miles an hour, and a
deer is approaching from the side at ten miles an hour, what is
the combined speed of impact? Show your work"
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> A bicyclist had a close encounter with a deer in Arizona at 40
miles an hour ― and based on the footage of the run-in,
they were both lucky to walk away in one piece.
>
> Reed (yes, “deer” spelled backward) Soehnel was cycling down
Mt. Lemmon outside of Tucson last week when the deer ran across
the road.
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> As the video shows, Soehnel went over the handlebars, flipping
completely over, with his head and shoulders absorbing much of
the impact.
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> Fortunately, he was wearing a helmet.
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> “I was fully alert and (had) no concussion symptoms the entire
time, so that’s why the decision was made to not involve an
ambulance, although I was in a decent amount of pain,” Soehnel
told the Arizona Daily Star.
>
> Somehow, both the cyclist and the deer managed to escape
without serious injury.
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> “The end result is a shattered bicycle, some road rash, and a
broken foot,” Soehnel wrote in his YouTube description. “You can
see my back wheel in the video, we were both very lucky it
wasn’t worse.”
>
> The deer could be seen in the background running back into the
forest.
>
>
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Must see video at the link!
HTML https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/01/29/never-ever-forget-your-helmet-cyclists-horrific-deer-crash-caught-on-camera/23655755/
#Post#: 568--------------------------------------------------
Re: Never, ever forget your helmet: Cyclist's horrific deer
crash caught on camera
DIR By: FellOffThePorch
Date: January 29, 2019, 11:08 am
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That was a tiny ass deer... at least compared to the ones around
here. Still lucky for both of em.
#Post#: 645--------------------------------------------------
Re: Never, ever forget your helmet: Cyclist's horrific deer
crash caught on camera
DIR By: Babs
Date: January 29, 2019, 4:49 pm
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OUCH! :o
#Post#: 648--------------------------------------------------
Re: Never, ever forget your helmet: Cyclist's horrific deer
crash caught on camera
DIR By: Alf
Date: January 29, 2019, 5:16 pm
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--- Quote from: FellOffThePorch link ---
>
> That was a tiny ass deer... at least compared to the ones
around here. Still lucky for both of em.
>
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Desert mule deer. They don't get very big.
Mt. Lemmon is a "sky island" north of Tucson. Like other sky
islands, it rises from the desert floor at 1000 feet, give or
take a couple hundred feet, to 7000, 8000, or 9000 feet. The top
is crowned with a pine forest, while the foot rises from
mesquite desert. It is quite a spectacular mountain, and there
are even trout in the lake near the top. And they taste great.
--Al
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