BEAR HIT BY TRUCK ON 126; DEATH IS THE FOURTH IN AS MANY MONTHS.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer A 400-pound bear was killed early Wednesday morning when it was hit by a trucker on Highway 126, the fourth bear to be hit on the rural road in the past four months, officials said. Experts say a recent fire in the area might be driving the California black bears in search of new habitat. About 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, the male bear wandered onto the highway just east of Fish Hatchery hatchery a commercial establishment dedicated to the hatching of bird eggs to provide day old chicks and poults to the poultry industry. hatchery liquid the contents of unfertilized eggs. Used in petfood manufacture. Road east of Fillmore. Truck driver Jerry Boles, 58, of Sanger, Calif., was traveling on Highway 126 and was unable to stop. ``The driver was westbound at about 60 mph when a bear crossed the road in front of him,'' said CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer Dave Cockrill. ``He had no time to react and struck the bear.'' Boles lost control of his truck, which skidded across the eastbound east·bound adj. Going toward the east. eastbound Adjective going towards the east Adj. 1. lanes, knocked down a guardrail and headed down a 25-foot embankment. The truck landed on its wheels in a citrus orchard. The trailer fell onto its side. Boles suffered only minor injuries and was treated at the scene. State Fish and Game Department officials removed the bear, placing its carcass carcass, carcase 1. the body of an animal killed for meat. The head, the legs below the knees and hocks, the tail, the skin and most of the viscera are removed. The kidneys are left in and in most instances the body is split down the middle through the sternum and the vertebral in the wild, said spokesman Patrick Moore
Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS (born 4 March, 1923) known as Patrick Moore . One lane of the highway was closed for several hours while CHP officers cleared the roadway. Moore said Wednesday's incident was the fourth time a bear has been hit on the highway, which stretches from Valencia to Ventura, passing through orchards and bordering the Los Padres National Forest Los Padres National Forest is a forest located in southern and central California, which includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,831 feet. . A brush fire in the spring near Piru could be driving bears and other wildlife from forested areas toward Piru and Fillmore, officials said. ``It happens periodically,'' said Cockrill. ``It's not necessarily common, but it's not uncommon.'' |
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