(KAIR)--An Atchison County weekend collision, involving a deer and two vehicles, sent one driver to the hospital.
According to a release from Atchison County Sheriff Jack Laurie, 20-year-old Maddysen Wilderson, of Everest, was northbound in the 18000 block of U.S. Highway 159, near 318th Road, north of Muscotah. when a deer ran into the roadway.
Wilderson’s Kia Optima struck the deer on the driver’s side front corner, sending the deer airborne into the oncoming lane of traffic, crashing into the driver’s side window of a southbound Chevrolet Colorado, driven by 76-year-old Horton resident Gary Swendson.
The deer, smashing through the window, struck Swendson before exiting the passenger side back window.
Swendson was transported by Horton EMS to the Hiawatha Community Hospital with what Laurie called suspected non-life-threatening injuries.
Wilderson was not hurt.
The wreck happened just minutes before 12 noon Saturday.
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