A deer crashed through a car windscreen after jumping off an overpass in New Jersey.Photo:Getty
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A driver had a lucky escape following an unexpected encounter with a deer.
The impact from the deer caused the car to strike a concrete barrier and crash into another vehicle traveling southbound, police also told the outlet.
Jasper Cordero toldWNBCthat he had been driving south on Route 21 in New Jersey just before 8 a.m. when the car in front of him suddenly stopped after a collision.
“Our vehicles stop. I’m facing him, the driver, and he’s looking out the window. And all I see is this green stuff all over his body. I thought it was a Starbucks matcha tea or something and he spilled on himself. But that’s not the case — and I also noticed some blood,” Cordero told the outlet.
“I wasn’t hurt, I was able to get out of my car. He was traumatic — not sure what had happened. He kept saying he thinks he hit something, he wasn’t sure,” he added.
Cordero told the outlet that he and another person went to the driver’s seat to help pull him out. They were still unaware of what had happened until they finally looked inside the car.
“We started helping him wipe off, call the police. And when we backed my vehicle away and actually finally opened the door, a full-on deer was sitting underneath his steering wheel shaft,” Cordero said.
“Out of nowhere — not like he hit something out of nowhere — it was literally, boom, there,” Cordero told WNBC.
“I feel really bad for that guy. I can only imagine what a traumatic experience it was,” he added. “If that deer would’ve been positioned in any other way, maybe the hoof’s in a different direction, that would’ve easily impaled him.”
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TheNew Jersey Department of Environmental Protectionhas previously warned motorists to drive with extra caution in the fall as that is the mating season for white-tailed deers. The DEP warned that deers are “more likely to suddenly enter roadways,” especially during early-morning hours and around sunset.
“Deer are involved in thousands of collisions with motor vehicles in New Jersey every year, most of which occur during the fall mating season,” New Jersey Fish & Wildlife Assistant Commissioner David Golden said in a statement last year.
He added, “We urge all drivers to be especially alert to the possibility of deer suddenly darting onto roadways, as well as know how to reduce the risk of a collision and possible serious injury to themselves, their passengers or others.”
source: people.com
