B.C. cyclist seriously injured after colliding with a bear: ‘It all happened so fast’
Global News
Kevin Milner said he is lucky to be alive after he was bike riding on Tuesday night and had a run-in with a bear that he could never have predicted.
It’s a story with a distinctly Canadian twist.
But North Vancouver resident Kevin Milner said he is lucky to be alive.
“I thought I was in a worse situation, and it turned out to be,” Milner told Global News Thursday.
He was riding his bike in Seymour’s Demonstration Forest and had just passed the six-kilometre mark where the road starts to go downhill and he started to pick up speed.
“I was going around the corner, really tight corner,” he said. “And as soon as I was coming around the corner, I look to my left and immediately there was a bear.”
Milner said the bear was on the grass on the left side of the road and he was on the right side.
“When I saw him, I didn’t have much time to react,” Milner said. “I thought about braking, but then I would have ended up right next to the bear, which I thought would have startled him pretty bad and potentially provoked an attack, which I was concerned about.”
So Milner decided to just keep going but the bear appeared to have the same idea.
