4:11 p.m. EDT, October 10, 2012

PINE GROVE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 55-year-old motorcyclist who was injured after colliding with a deer in southwestern Michigan has died.

The Van Buren County sheriff's department said in a statement Wednesday that Thomas Earl Parsley died at a hospital of injuries from Monday's crash in Pine Grove Township.

The sheriff's department said the Bloomingdale Township man couldn't avoid striking the deer and was thrown from the motorcycle in the crash.