DEER CRASHES INTO CAR
LONDON. A deer crashed through the offside window and1 into a moving car in Epping Forest recently. It caused two cars hehind to be involved in a collision. One passenger was taken to hospital wtih slight injuries. The car into which the animal crashed was driven by Mr. Samuel Tomlin, 47, a bus driver of Meadow Road, Loughton, Essex. He said: "I was driving along the Epping New Road, Loughton, with my father, rnother and daughter, when something hit me on the head. "It was a big 'black deer with a full set of antlers, and it niust have weighed one and a half hundredweights. It hit the car like a bullet from a gun. ■"It was killed instantly. It broke the nearside window before slipping baclc to the road, leaving a piece of antler in the car. "Nobody was hurt in my car, mainly, I think, because I was driving so slowly and was able to pull up automatieally. "The deer ran down a steep bank and I think it tried to jump clean over the car"
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5305, 18 January 1947, Page 6
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