Three-vehicle crash involving a deer on I-79, Harrison County WV

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Reported: 11/2/2025 04:29 PM

I-79, United States

A deer caused a three-vehicle accident on I-79. The first car hit the deer, spun into a second vehicle, and a third car ran over the deer. No injuries or tow needed. All vehicles are off the road.

Audio|Source: Harrison County Law Enforcement

02:48

Transcript:

00:00

Can you respond to 79 Mallmarker, near 126-and-a-half, southbound for a three-ve vehicle accident involving a deer?

00:13

Copy, responding.

00:15

Responding,

00:16

42, 1930.

00:23

Headquarters 42,

00:25

you are responding to, there's going to be a Mazda, CX5, a red jeep,

00:32

an unknown what the third vehicle is.

00:35

The first car struck the deer, causing it to spin and strike the second vehicle, and the third vehicle ran over the deer.

00:46

Forty-eighthors I copy are all three vehicles still in the roadway.

00:53

Headquarters 42, they are off the desired roadway.

00:59

Copy. Can you check and see if any of them are going to need records?

01:06

The subject we spoke to does not need a record.

01:10

We do not have contact with the other two vehicles.

01:14

Copy.

01:17

Headquarters 301, status check.

01:19

We're all tear for headquarters.

01:24

Copy 301, 1932.

01:29

Thanks to wait, grandma.

01:31

Anymore.

01:32

Okay.

01:39

One phone. Grandma, uh, did they, uh, did they contend that? Okay.

01:49

They're not 197.

01:51

That was a negative.

01:52

They said that they're going to send it through a hit response.

01:57

I went ahead and sent it when I got off the phone with them.

02:01

10.4.

02:09

15, that question.

02:11

15, go ahead.

02:17

Go ahead, put 42 back in service.

02:20

I'll take care of the crash on the, he was assigned to.

02:25

Break?

02:27

Go ahead, 15.

02:29

Do you by the third vehicle did not collide with the first two, just the deer?

02:36

Hey, six, Simon.

02:37

Eighth, thank you, West Virginia.

02:41

For status, please.

02:43

The third vehicle struck the deer after it was hit and laying in the roadway.

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