RUSSELL, Kan. (AP) — A 59-year-old Kansas man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving Friday night collided with a black cow on a blacktopped road. 
 
 Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Brant Birney said there were no witnesses when James Zordel hit the cow on a paved rural road about six miles south of Interstate 70 near Russell. 
 
 Zordel was driving in the roadway when the accident happened and it is not clear if he was speeding or if the cow suddenly appeared from the side of the road. 
 
 "It was dark. He was driving down a blacktop road and he hit a black cow," Birney said, adding that exactly what caused the accident may never be known. 
 
 Zordel, who was not wearing a helmet, died at the scene. ||||| A man is dead after running his motorcycle into a black cow late Friday night in Russell County. 
 
 Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs show James Zordel, 59, of Russell, was northbound in the 3500 block of 189th street about 6.5 miles south of I-70, when his 1992 Suzuki motorcycle collided with the animal. 
 
 Zordel was pronounced dead at the scene. No one else was hurt. The KHP reports Zordel was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
– A 59-year-old Kansas man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving Friday night collided with a black cow on a blacktopped road, reports KAKE. Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Brant Birney said there were no witnesses when James Zordel hit the cow on a paved rural road about six miles south of Interstate 70 near Russell. It's not clear if Zordel was speeding or if the cow suddenly appeared from the side of the road, notes the AP. "It was dark. He was driving down a blacktop road and he hit a black cow," Birney said, adding that exactly what caused the accident may never be known. Zordel, who was not wearing a helmet, died at the scene.