Oh Deer! (Take five)
The most recent photo of Kacee Larson's van was taken after the accident in which deer No. 5 was hit on July 23. The van was totaled.
Conrad teen hits five deer in less than a year
By Chuck Friend
The Record Editor
Hitting one deer is bad enough, but for one Conrad area teen, hitting five in less than one year is reason for concern.
Kacee Larson, 17-year-old daughter of Rhonda Chesick of Conrad has the dubious honor of accomplishing that feat, especially when the latest accident on July 23 totaled her van and set off the vehicle’s airbag.
Following the accident Rhonda went on the Internet and asked if any news media wanted to do a story on a teen that has had so much trouble with the four-legged creatures, and Eric Hanson of Des Moines television station KCCI (news channel 8) picked up the lead.
Kacee’s first run in with a deer happened in July of 2009. The second was in August of 2009 and the third in September.
“After the September accident, I was told to pray before driving, and until July of this year it worked,” Kacee said. “I didn’t pray on July 13 and I hit another one.”
Her latest accident was on July 23, and Larson admits that this was by far the scariest one because of the airbag deployment.
Another interesting sidelight to the story is that every other accident was with her vehicle with the opposite being family vans or cars.
Larson said most of the damage has been only cosmetic and the family did not repair it, however the latest was much more serious.
Once the story appears on KCCI, a story and pictures of the vehicles will be on the KCCI website.