Road Crews Pave Over Dead Deer

State transportation officials are trying to find out why workers repairing a stretch of road paved straight over a dead deer.

A gooey spread of oil and rocks was left covering the deer’s head, neck and shoulders along Route 895.

“The deer was lying there dead for three to four weeks,” said Keith Billig, the mayor of nearby Bowmanstown, about 65 miles northwest of Philadelphia. “I never saw anything like that before in my life.”

It is against state policy to pave over a deer, said Walter Bortree, an engineer for the state Transportation Department.