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 .
 
the khp reports zordel was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash .
zordel was pronounced dead at the scene .
no one else was hurt .
zordel , who was not wearing a helmet , died at the scene .
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 .
a man is dead after running his motorcycle into a black cow late friday night in russell county .
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 .