A motorcyclist is dead after colliding with a deer in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, early Tuesday morning, police said.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, just before 6 a.m.., troopers responded to 4842 Mountain Road in Washington Township after receiving a report of a motorcycle crash.
Upon investigation, police said it was determined that a 2004 Harley Davidson motorcycle, operated by a 64-year-old man from Germansville, Pennsylvania, collided with a deer. The man suffered fatal injuries from the crash.
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Mountain Road was closed between Furnace Road in Washington Township and Jones Road in Heidelberg Township during the investigation but has since been reopened.
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