WINONA LAKE – A Warsaw man riding a motorcycle Tuesday night was critically injured when a deer crossed his path.
According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department crash team, Robert L. Gast, 34, of 638 E. Lakewood Avenue, Warsaw, was westbound on Roy Street in Winona Lake just before midnight.
While on his 1978 BMWmotorcycle, Gast struck a deer that crossed his path causing Gast to be thrown from the motorcycle.
Gast, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, according to police, was airlifted to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne and as of 9 a.m. this morning was listed in critical condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
The county’s crash team said the investigation is ongoing.
