Five deer near Ft. Wayne, Ind., were acting more like lemmings when they leapt together off a 30-foot-high overpass onto a busy highway in November, smashing one windshield and startling drivers in the process.
On the afternoon of Nov. 28, the deer jumped from a highway overpass onto an interstate below, with one smashing through the windshield of a tractor-trailer, Fort Wayne’s Journal Gazette reported. The truck’s driver was uninjured, but the long fall killed each of the five deer.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources guessed that hunters, farmers removing crops from nearby fields or breeding pressures could have sent the deer onto the overpass, where oncoming traffic could have startled them and caused the bizarre jump.