Middletown, Conn./WTIC Radio - A man is dead and a woman is in critical condition after a motorcycle crash Saturday in Middletown.
Police say they got the call around 5:45 p.m. to Randolph Road near Zoar's Pond.
They say Michael Thiede, 53, hit a guardrail after a deer jumped in front of the bike, according to witnesses.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators say a woman identified at Rebekah Cardona, 49, sustained serious injuries to her chest and arm.
She's being treated in Hartford Hospital.
Police say witness told them the deer jumped in front of and collided with the bike.
That's when Thiede lost control and hit the guardrail.
Last week a deer crashed through the windshield of a vehicle on Interstate 384 in Manchester leaving the driver seriously injured.