For the second time in five days, a bear was struck by a car and killed in Cobb County.

A motorist called 911 shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday to report the peculiar roadkill on Barrett Parkway under I-75, Cobb police dispatchers said.

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A bear lies on the edge of a sidewalk along Barrett Parkway after being struck Tuesday morning by a motorist who did not stop.

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The driver who struck the bear did not stop, dispatchers said. A state Department of Transportation crew removed the bear from the sidewalk that runs alongside heavily-traveled Barrett Parkway.

Early Friday, a cub was hit and killed about 10 miles south in the I-75/I-285 interchange.

It's not unusual for black bears to make their way from the forested foothills north of Atlanta into the suburbs, particularly in the spring and summer.

Last July, a Kennesaw woman hit a 200-pound bear on I-75 in Cherokee County, and bears also were spotted last summer roaming around Roswell, east Cobb County and near Stone Mountain in DeKalb County.

"The young male bears are being kicked out by the mother bear, and they are searching for their own territory," state Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Melissa Cummings said after last summer's rash of metro bear sightings. "Unfortunately, that sometimes takes them through neighborhoods and streets."

A 75-pound bear was captured in June 2006 at the intersection of I-285 and Ashford Dunwoody Road in DeKalb just a week after another bear was tranquilized and caught outside Gwinnett Place Mall.

Four years ago, a Gainesville man driving on I-85 in Gwinnett County struck and killed at 450-pound bear near the Ga. 120 exit.