Overview
- After a car struck a doe on a rural road in Bavaria’s Rhön-Grabfeld district, the badly injured animal delivered a fawn at the scene and then died.
- Responding officers placed the newborn in a box with a warm blanket and used a hairdryer to keep steady warm air on it.
- Wildlife rescue staff from Wildtierrettung Bad Kissingen soon took custody of the fawn, which is now being nursed.
- Police urged drivers to slow down in wooded areas at dusk and at night, avoid swerving, secure the scene, call police, and not touch injured animals.
- Spring brings more deer near roads, which raises collision risk on rural routes and often makes police the first caregivers until specialists arrive.