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Woman Avoids Squirrel, Rodent Still Gets it in the End

Three injured in squirrel-related crash

SOUTH MOUNTAIN -- Three people were injured in a two vehicle crash about 1:45 p.m. Saturday after a woman swerved to avoid a squirrel in the road on U.S. 40A near Moser Road, according to Maryland State Police in Hagerstown.

Amy Deosaran, 32, of Middletown, was driving a 2002 Acura MDX east on U.S. 40A when she saw the squirrel, police said. The Acura struck a westbound 1995 Toyota Tacoma driven by Philip N. Kisner, 50, of Martinsburg, W.Va., head on.

Toyota passenger Karen Lynn Kisner, 50, Deosaran, and her 9-year-old son were taken to Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said. Philip Kisner refused treatment. Everyone was wearing seat belts and the child was in a child safety restraint.

Deosaran was charged with failure to drive right of center, police said.

After the crash, the squirrel again attempted to cross U.S. 40A but did not make it, police said. The squirrel was struck and killed by an unknown vehicle.

-- Gina Gallucci

OK folks... This is a life lesson to all of the PETA people out there to remember that a squirrel is not worth possibly killing three people. Seriously, she swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid a squirrel and sent three people to the hospital, putting her own son in harms way. The ironic part is that the damn squirrel was then hit by another car with a driver smart enough not to swerve into traffic to avoid the rodent.

Please people, if for no reason then getting yourselves mentioned in the Darwin awards, don't swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid a rodent that there are millions of around. It just is not worth killing someone over.