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January 26

Deer runs into student at York school

York Daily Record

YORK, Pa. - Students and parents watched at dismissal time Wednesday as a doe ran through the main doors of Red Lion Area Junior High School and collided with an eighth-grade student, knocking them both to the ground.
The eighth-grader got up and hurried outside while Principal Kevin Peters and teacher Nate Resh trapped the deer in the foyer and got other students out of harms way.
The student, who collided with the deer, was taken to a hospital as a precaution, Peters said. He had reported that his foot was sore, Supt. Scott Deisley said.
"We’re incredibly lucky it was not more serious with so many students being there," Peters said.
Dismissal had been well underway by the time the deer had arrived around 2:45 p.m. The school buses had already left the campus, and about 150 students who walk home or are picked up by parents remained.
The father of the victim saw the deer hit a fence near third base on the softball field, Peters said. It then ran across the parking lot and entered the main doors, running into the son who was walking out.
Peters, who had stopped to talk to Resh, heard students screaming, "Oh my gosh, look at that!" The two rushed over to see what was going on.
The doe, which had jumped back up, was still inside the building. The two moved students out of the foyer and closed the interior doors, trapping the deer inside.
The doe ran around inside the foyer, splintering a interior door. Peters said he wanted to get the deer out of there.
He hurried through the foyer - while the deer ran around - to open the exterior doors. He yelled those watching to move back.
The doe crashed into the window of an exterior door on its first attempt. It escaped on the second try and took off.
"As fast as it came, it was gone," Deisley said. "I think she was pretty scared, too."
Peters joked that he was never prepared for this. He said the deer did not get close to him as he ran through the foyer.
"You just don’t think," he said. "You have the safety of the kids in mind."

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