Two teens crash cars in effort to avoid deer
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Times Argus Staff - Published: December 7, 2009
BARRE – Deer and teenagers were two common elements in completely separate motor vehicle accidents in Washington County on Friday that totaled two vehicles and sent a 16-year-old to the hospital.
In the first accident, Vermont State Police responded to West Hill Road in Worcester at about 5 p.m. and found a car down an embankment.
Joseph G. Nailor, 16, of Worcester told police he swerved to miss a deer that was in the middle of the road. His northbound car went into a skid and Nailor overcorrected his vehicle, sending his car off the west side of the road where it rolled twice and landed upright, police said. The car was totaled.
Police noted that they could not prove or disprove the presence of a deer.
Nailor, who was wearing a seatbelt, was transported to Central Vermont Medical Center with minor lacerations.
In another accident, this one on River Road in Duxbury at 10:45 p.m., a Dodge pickup truck went off the road and was pinned against trees down a 20-foot embankment.
The driver of the truck, Jaryn A. Magee, 17, of Moretown told police he was driving the truck south when he came across deer in the road and swerved to miss them.
Neither Magee nor his passenger, 19-year-old Harley Magee, were injured, police said. The truck was totaled.
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