WORCESTER TOWNSHIP ACCIDENT

State police respond to a deer versus car incident along I-476S in Worcester Township

The increased deer population has incidents of this nature on the rise.

By Tony Di Domizio

Managing Editor

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Pennsylvania State Police

Pennsylvania State Police Photo by Tony Di Domizio.

The increased deer population has incidents of this nature on the rise.

  • Public Safety

The Pennsylvania State Police have released information regarding a vehicle striking a deer while traveling on the interstate earlier this month.

The accident occurred on Monday, Nov. 4 around 12:36 a.m. in Worcester Township. State Police arrived at the scene to find a driver, who was not injured, near his 2012 Ford Fusion. The driver had struck a deer while traveling in the center lane of Interstate 476 southbound near mile marker A25.

Police said that the front left of the vehicle hit the deer, and the car came to stop in the right shoulder, facing south.

According to police reports, the driver was wearing a lap and shoulder belt and was cited for not having financial responsibility.

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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.

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