MARKLE, Ind. (AP) (Indiana's NewsCenter)- Northern Indiana police say five deer that
wandered onto a highway overpass jumped to their deaths onto
Interstate 69, one of them crashing through a tractor-trailer's
windshield.
After the animals' fatal plunge, their mangled carcasses
littered the expressway to the horror of motorists who approached
yesterday's scene in the northbound lanes of I-69 about 20 miles
southwest of Fort Wayne.
State Department of Natural Resources spokesman John Salb says
the deer may have been spooked by cars as they were crossing the
overpass and jumped from that overpass, not knowing that a busy
highway was far below them.
The 20- to 30-foot fall killed all five deer. The last of the
five deer went through the windshield of a tractor-trailer rig, but
police say the driver was not injured.