AVON  (AP) - One person has died in a collision between a motorcycle and a deer in Stearns County.

The sheriff's department says 47-year-old passenger, Laura Ann Tenvoorde-Behrend, was killed the motorcycle hit a deer about 8 p.m. Wednesday in Avon Township.

The driver, 49-year-old David Behrend, was injured and taken to St. Cloud Hospital where a spokeswoman says he is in critical condition.

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