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An Upper Peninsula man is dead following a motorcycle crash in Marquette County.
A trooper from the Michigan State Police Negaunee Post responded to the accident on M-95 near Grosbeak Lane in Republic Township around 6:30am Thursday.
56-year-old Charles Boshears of Republic was southbound on M-95 on a 1991 Harley Davidson motorcycle when he swerved to avoid a collision with a deer in the roadway.
The motorcycle left the roadway and appeared to have collided with several trees.
Boshears was not wearing a helmet and was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Anttila’s Towing, UP Health Systems Marquette, the Michigan State Police Accident Reconstructionist and the Marquette County Sheriff’s Department assisted with this traffic crash.
