Quesnel RCMP were called to an accident on the 21-hundred block of Sales Road West at around 4:30 on Wednesday (October 21) evening.
Sergeant Clay Kronebusch says the responding officer noted that the motorcycle struck a deer that had run in front of him.He says the rider was thrown from the bike and slide down the road for 30 to 40 metres.
Kronebusch says the rider was taken to hospital by ambulance in stable condition.
The deer died at the scene.
