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Last updated on Tuesday, November 20, 2018
(NEW ALBANY) - The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a motor vehicle struck a black bear on a southern Indiana highway.
It says the bear was struck on Interstate 64 near mile marker 121 in the New Albany area at 8 p.m. Sunday. The injured bear wandered into heavy brush after the collision.
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New Albany police say the driver wasn't injured.
Black bears are generally timid and avoid human encounters. Do not approach this animal, however, as it is injured and may act defensively.
If you see this bear, please report at wildlife.IN.gov/8497.htm
Indiana black bear
Black bears are rare in Indiana. The DNR says that before 2015, when a black bear entered the state from Michigan, the last confirmed report of a black bear in Indiana was in the 1870s. In 2016, a black bear was confirmed in southern Indiana's Harrison, Washington and Clark counties.
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