Teen hits five deer in one year

CONRAD, Iowa, July 27 (UPI) -- A 17-year-old Iowa girl said she has hit five deer while driving her family's vehicles during the past year.

Kacee Larson, 17, of Conrad, said she totaled her minivan Friday in a head-on collision with a deer on County Road S-75, marking her fifth crash involving the notoriously hazardous animals since her first deer crash in July, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, Iowa, reported Tuesday.

Larsen said her second encounter with a deer on the road happened a few months later while she was on the way to church, and the third took place a few months after that while driving a friend home from cross-country practice. She said the fourth crash happened in the early morning this past spring while she was en route to a babysitting gig.

Larson and her mother, Ronda Chesick, said they are thankful she wasn't injured in any of the crashes.

"Let's find a 50 dollar car and put a steel plate in the front. That way, if she hits a deer it's just going to bounce off," Chesick joked.