Area teen strikes black bear with car in northern Bay County

There’s bears in them there Bay County woods. Those dubious of the claim need only speak with Ashlee L. Tigner or take a look at her car, damaged after a recent collision with one of the furry beasts. The 19-year-old graduate of Western High School was heading home the night of Nov. 18 from a shift at Arby’s in Linwood, driving her dad’s 2004 gray Pontiac Grand Am north on Fraser Road. Around 9:20 p.m., she noticed she was bearing down on an odd object in the roadway between Kitchen and Prevo roads. “I was driving down the road and the bear was running straight down the road,” she said. “It was blending in with the road by the time I saw it.”

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