A 27-year-old Olympia man was airlifted to Tacoma General Hospital early Thanksgiving morning after swerving the vehicle he was driving to avoid a deer and hitting some trees.
He may have been driving fast to work at the correctional facility in Shelton around 5:30 a.m. when he tried to avoid hitting a deer that was running along state Route 101, said Washington State Patrol Trooper Kameron Watts.
Troopers on scene said the crash resulted in one of the most damaged cars they’d ever seen that didn’t result in death, Watts said. It took direct responders 45 minutes to extract the driver from the vehicle…