Bicyclist riding on Disney World property hits deer
Sarah Langbein | Sentinel Staff Writer
July 19, 2007
This was truly a hit-and-run accident.
Jeffrey Norberry, 56, was biking this morning along a secluded area on Walt Disney World property when a deer ran across the roadway and collided with him head-on, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Norberry, who was wearing a helmet, flipped over the handle bars of his bike and the deer before crashing to the ground shortly before 3 a.m.
The man ws taken to Celebration Hospital with minor injuries.
The deer was nowhere to be found.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, deer-vehicle collisions are most likely to happen from to sunset to midnight and during the hours shortly before and after sunrise.
Sarah Langbein | Sentinel Staff Writer
July 19, 2007
This was truly a hit-and-run accident.
Jeffrey Norberry, 56, was biking this morning along a secluded area on Walt Disney World property when a deer ran across the roadway and collided with him head-on, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Norberry, who was wearing a helmet, flipped over the handle bars of his bike and the deer before crashing to the ground shortly before 3 a.m.
The man ws taken to Celebration Hospital with minor injuries.
The deer was nowhere to be found.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, deer-vehicle collisions are most likely to happen from to sunset to midnight and during the hours shortly before and after sunrise.
