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Your City in Motion
Wandering deer create accidents
By Steve Schmidt
sschmidt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Beware motorists: Love is in the air — for deer anyway.
Late fall is deer-mating season, also called rutting season, which could mean trouble for cars and animals alike.
The season generally starts 10 to 14 days into November, with a second wave of activity coming a few weeks later, said Mep Keff, research biologist at the Emporia Research and Survey Office of the Kansas Wildlife and Parks Department.
November also tends to be the worst month for deer-related car accidents, said Kim Stich, informational specialist of the Kansas Department of Transportation.
"We want people to be on the lookout any time when you're driving," Stich said. "It's something you need to be alert for at all times."
"It is something you need to be alert for at all times."
Although no statistics are available for 2003, Stich said the number of deer-caused accidents
informational specialist of the Kansas Department of Transportation
in Kansas in 2002 did go down from 2001, when 10,192 accidents were caused by deer, with no fatal accidents but 418 people injured. In 2002, 9,287 accidents were caused by deer, resulting in one death and 341 people injured.
reek said it was not just deer that were out and about—other mammals, such as rabbits and possums were out more as well.
He said the increased animal activity was because it was mating season, and animals were storing up winter fat reserves on cooler nights.
They are also looking for new places to find cover after most fields have been harvested, he said.
Norm Slade, a curator of mammals at the KU Natural History Museum, said he attributed most of the increased activity to the mobility of the male deer.
"They're occupied with other things," he said. "They're less careful about dashing across a highway. It's probably just testosterone."
Increased deer activity translates into increased business for Marie Seneca, repair process manager at Pearson Collision, 646 Connecticut St. Seneca said her shop had about two or three cars a week that were damaged by deer, but during November — especially the second week of the month — that number swelled to about six eight cars per week.
"It seems to be more prevalent with pickups than cars," Seneca said.
She estimated that 60 to 70 percent of her customers have damaged pickup trucks because of collisions with deer.
Allied Autobody Carstar, 800 E. 23rd St., has an increased amount of deer-damaged vehicles at the end of October and the beginning of November, said Sean Roether, shop manager.
Right now, his shop is working
BEWARETHEDEER
Here are some things to remember when driving your car:
Deer seldom travel alone. If you see a deer, be on the lookout for others.
Be careful, especially at dawn and dusk. That's when deer are most active.
Wear your seat belt.
Look out for deer-crossing signs.
Watch out near wooded areas
If you see a deer, hit the brakes but don't swerve. Swerving leads to more serious accidents and can cause your car to roll over.
Source: Kansas Department of Transportation
on about one or two deer-damaged cars a week, but that number should increase to four or five a week come November, he said.
Edited by Ehren Meditz
Officials look into suspicious package
The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. - Hundreds of workers left the Docking State Office Building on yesterday after an employee noticed a suspicious odor coming from a package.
Four people were taken to hospitals and released later in the day.
The employee was handling documents sent from Kansas counties to the Department of
Revenue's Title and Registration Division when she detected the odor, authorities said.
A special National Guard unit, the 73rd Civil Support Team, was sent to the building to determine the cause of the odor and to inspect the package.
The unit's mission is to support civil authorities in incidents involving biological, chemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction, the Kansas Adjutant General's Department said.
The woman who opened the package was among the four taken to a hospital, Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. John Eichhorn said. He said the woman's eyes began to water and her throat became scratchy.
City spokeswoman Ruth Maus said firefighters inside the building didn't find any liquid, powder or gas inside and didn't detect an odor, although they wore masks.
About 2,100 people work in
the building.
No evacuation was ordered, Eichkorn said, but workers were allowed to leave the building and those returning from lunch were not allowed back in.
Eichkorn said the odor was described by various people as smelling like bug spray, gasoline, exhaust fumes and solvents.
"We don't have any reason to believe right now that it was anything other than something common," Eichkorn said.
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