LAWTON, Okla. - A city driver in Oklahoma got a morning surprise when a deer went flying through the windshield.City officials in Lawton said the incident happened in June and the driver was Alisha Sutton— who had only been on the job for 10 months.
The city also released a video of the crash, saying the deer stood up immediately and Sutton opened the door to let it back out. "I was like, I guess I gotta slow this bus down," Sutton said in a news release. "I slowed it down and brought it to a stop right there in the road.
And I wanted to get her off the bus. I was afraid it was going to try to run to the back of the bus and get hurt, try to escape that way."RELATED: Shocking video captures moment deer crashes through school bus windshield, landing on studentThe driver said she called dispatch seconds after letting the deer off the bus. "Ma’am, a deer just jumped through my window," Sutton told the dispatcher. "It was on the passenger side – it got stuck on the bus.
I opened the door and it jumped out."The general manager of the Lawton Area Transit System, or LATS, praised Sutton for her actions. "I was very happy to see how our driver handled the situation," Ryan Landers said. "She was very cool, calm and collected.