(Creston, Iowa) – A collision Sunday evening between an SUV and a deer in Union County, resulted in the driver of the vehicle being transported to the hospital for treatment of unknown/possible injuries. According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, 49-year-old Maria Kaye Dukes, of Afton, was driving a 2017 Nissan Murano eastbound on Highway 34 at around 5:30-p.m., when a deer came out of the ditch. When the SUV struck the animal, the vehicle’s airbags deployed.

Dukes complained of pain and possible injury. She was transported by ambulance to the Greater Regional Medical Center in Creston. Damage to her vehicle was estimated to be $10,000, or a total loss.