Ouch... hate to hear stuff like this, just another reminder for everyone to slow down, especially guys on bikes!
From Citybeat:
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Last night at 11:22 PM Calgary EMS responded with CPS and CFD
to a motor vehicle crash at Nosehill Drive and Silver Springs
BV NW.
Paramedics arrived and found a motorcycle had collided with a
car. The motorbike was on fire and the male occupant was
critically injured and thrown from the collision.
Paramedics attempted Advanced Life Support procedures and
transported the 40 year old male to Foothills Trauma Center.
Despite resuscitative attempts the patient was pronounced
dead shortly after his arrival at hospital.