Reader writes of sad highway encounter with fawn

WILDLIFE — Ginger Ninde writes to thank people who helped her through an unfortunate encounter she just had with a whitetail fawn near her home in Medical Lake:

Thank you to everyone who patiently waited on highway 902 (both directions) while an injured fawn with broken legs struggled in the road.  Many thanks to the man in the on-coming red truck with black dog for his help trying to get the little fawn to the side of the road and to the woman in the car behind him who also gently tried to help. Thank you Michelle for pulling in front of me and calling 911; words cannot express my gratitude for your kindness during such a horrible and sad situation. To the officer who arrived… thank you for ending the suffering.

I wish I could I have done something, anything to avoid hitting that young, innocent, graceful animal. It brings some solace to know what good people drive highway 902. P.S. To the one car that refused to wait… maybe you thought we were having a ho-down and there wasn’t a legitimate reason traffic was stopped. You squeezed around us in your big car as little one tried to drag itself to the side of the road. You gave your passengers a view I bet they wish they could forget.

—Ginger Ninde