A Thai driver crashed his Mercedez Benz into a deer and killed it on Borommaratchachonnani Road near Mahidol University in Pathum Thani province near Bangkok yesterday.
Upon being alerted to the incident, officers from Phutthamonthon Police Station have been fast to attend the scene where they discovered the lifeless body of a male deer. The deer had lovely antlers and weighed about 80 kilogrammes.
Witnesses and a university safety guard worked together to move the animal’s body out of the finest way and near the university entrance for additional investigation into its origin.
About one hundred metres away from the scene was a white Mercedez Benz C220. The front of the automotive and its left door have been badly damaged. The driver and his spouse waited for the law enforcement officials in the automotive.
The driver, 55 yr previous Worrapoj Saelim, reported that he and his wife were travelling to Bangkok when the incident occurred. He claimed that an unidentified animal had run throughout the guard rail and collided together with his automobile. He got out of the automobile to verify and was shocked to seek out that the animal was a deer. Worrapoj added that he had not expected to see a deer on such a busy highway and residential area.
The police officer, Ekkasit Kongton, reported to KhaoSod that Mahidol University contacted the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) to assist with identifying the origin of the useless deer. The DNP confirmed that the dead deer was a Rusa deer. This species was not included on the protected animal record.
Locals within the area advised police that the deer lived in the grassland close by the accident scene. They notified the related departments in regards to the deer and urged the officers to capture it. However, the operation was unsuccessful as a result of huge space.
Luxurious are at present attempting to establish the deer’s owner. They suspect that the deer could have escaped from a nearby deer farm or might have fallen from a automobile while being transported.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time a deer has been concerned in a site visitors accident in Thailand. Two months ago, a wild deer was seriously injured in a collision with a pickup on the street in the japanese province of Rayong. The pickup driver, Pichet, reported that he could not cease in time when the deer was darting throughout Tasit-Pluak Daeng Road.
The collision caused large damage to the pickup. A female passenger was injured within the accident as nicely..