A Canoncito, New Mexico father said his daughter was born in the front seat of a truck traveling down a closed highway in a snowstorm. Russell LeFevre said his wife Elizabeth started having contractions early Tuesday so they grabbed their 3-year-old daughter and jumped into a truck driven by his brother and headed toward Santa Fe. They were on the icy highway and about halfway there when Elizabeth's water broke. The baby immediately followed. Russell, who graduated from nursing school last month, delivered Joanna Mallory LeFevre in the front seat of the vehicle. The family found a state police officer parked on the highway who gave them blankets, called an ambulance, and took them the rest of the way to the hospital. Mom and baby are doing fine.
Police say a drunken New York man struck a deer with his vehicle, then tried driving the injured animal to a nearby hospital — for humans.
Police say 29-year-old Andrew Caswell hit the deer early Monday in the suburban Rochester town of Greece. They say Caswell and three companions argued over what to do with it before Caswell decided the deer needed to go to the hospital.
An officer who pulled the car over discovered the deer was in the vehicle’s trunk and had died.
Police say Caswell’s blood-alcohol level was .16, twice the legal limit. Caswell’s phone number couldn’t be located Thursday.
Police Chief Todd Baxter tells the Democrat and Chronicle that while trying to save the deer was commendable, “driving while intoxicated will not be tolerated.”
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