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Old 10-03-2009, 06:32 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Deer VS Motorcycle

In high school, Shawn Ritchie played fullback on the football team and suffered his share of hard hits. But none could compare to the one he took on Tuesday when his motorcycle collided with a deer while cruising down Interstate 90 at 75 mph.

"I ain't never been hit like that," the 46-year-old oil field salesman from Alice, Texas, said Friday from his hospital bed at St. Vincent Healthcare.

The purple bruises on his knuckles and shaved head and a neck brace are the most evident marks of his collision, which split the deer in half. Ritchie also suffered a broken left shoulder, broken ribs, a lacerated spleen and kidney. His motorcycle, a 2006 Harley Road King, is likely totaled.

FULL STORY: Bikers retain humor after I-90 crash