The Associated Press
MEDICINE LODGE, Kan.–Authorities say a vulture caused a crash that killed two people as they rode a motorcycle in southern Kansas.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said the bird came out of a ditch Saturday afternoon and struck 42-year-old Brandon Husband, of Fowler, in the head on a rural road 13 miles (20 kilometres) northwest of the Barber County town of Medicine Lodge.
The motorcycle then went off the road, struck a barbed wire fence and overturned.
The patrol says Husband died at the scene, and his passenger, 43-year-old Jennifer Husband, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Neither was wearing a helmet.
Medicine Lodge is about 75 miles (120 kilometres) southwest of Wichita.
