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Struck deer smashes through N.J. ambulance windshield

Lands partially in rear compartment where a patient was being transported

By David Campbell
The Princeton Packet

Princeton Animal Control Officer Mark Johnson had the unenviable — and probably once-in-a-lifetime — task of removing a deer from the back of an ambulance Tuesday.

The private Able Ambulance was traveling southbound on Route 206 in Princeton Township shortly before 11 a.m., moving at a normal non-emergency speed, when a deer leapt out into the roadway and was hit. The animal crashed through the windshield, clipped past the driver, and landed partially in the rear compartment, where a patient was being transported, police said.

The occupants of the Able Ambulance were not seriously harmed.

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