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.
Allen Kinkead, 65, said it happened Sunday about 20 miles into a bicycle trip with five other people in Penn Township, Westmoreland County. That's about 22 miles east of Pittsburgh.
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.
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.
