The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports four Maryville residents received minor injuries when deer hit a car on Highway 71 south of Savannah.
Two passengers, 23-year-old Varsha Gajula and 27-year-old Sumanth Sai Poduri were taken to Mosaic Medical Center in S. Joseph. The driver, 28-year-old Chandra Se Bala Tumma, and another passenger, 24-year-old Padmanabh Phani Ratnala, were treated at the scene.
The accident happened Saturday evening on northbound Highway 71 just north of Interstate 29 when a herd of deer entered the road and hit the driver’s side of the northbound car demolishing the vehicle.
Poduri was the only person not wearing a seat belt.
