Driver nearly hits deer crossing road at KJE exit, then another deer appears and gets knocked down
A vehicle managed to avoid hitting a deer crossing a slip road off Kranji Expressway (KJE), but another smaller deer behind the animal wasn't as lucky.
The driver of the vehicle posted on Reddit dashcam footage of the accident at Kranji Expressway exit towards Woodlands Road on March 28 at around 8.20pm.
He wrote: "Thankfully, I slowed down after spotting the first deer (probably mama deer) but hit the baby deer at around 40kmh."
The driver added in the comments: "I only saw the first deer and immediately pressed the horn and brake to slow down and allowed it to cross. What I did not anticipate was a second deer to run right behind it."
After the second deer was knocked down, it still managed to get up and ran after the first deer.
"Immediately, once I hit the poor deer, I turned on hazard lights to alert the cars behind me as I had come to stop," recounted the driver.
"After the deer ran off and I visually assessed that the road was clear and there was not going be a third deer running in, I drove a short distance ahead and stopped at a maintenance lane to check on the front (of my vehicle).
"I was glad to see that there was no blood, deer parts or damage to the front, but there was quite a bit of mud, probably from the deer's body.
"After that, I just drove home and cleaned the mud off."
The animals he encountered were likely sambar deer.
A Facebook user named Love Sambar, who became aware of the accident and visited the accident site, posted on March 30: "After spending three hours on-site and searching the nearby woods covering 1.5km radius, i think the fawn involved in the accident is fine.
"There were no signs of deer presence inside the wooded area next to the KJE exit. No scat, no deer prints and no deer trail."
On Dec 2 last year, a motorcyclist was taken to hospital after an accident with a lorry and a sambar deer in Mandai. The deer subsequently died.
The sambar deer is currently listed as a vulnerable species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, which means the animal is considered to be at high risk of extinction in the wild, according to the IUCN website.
