If we don’t count the death of a deer, there was ultimately only material damage on Saturday in the Oise, but motorists must have had a real scare. During a hunt, a fleeing animal found itself on a national road.
The accident took place in the Compiègne forest, not far from Trosly-Breuil, when, around 12:15 p.m., a deer tumbled onto the national road N 31. “It jumped over a sedan, lightly touching it on the level of the roof, and then fell on a utility vehicle,” explained a gendarmerie source to “Parisien”. Both the hood and the windshield of the second vehicle were destroyed.
The deer managed to continue on its way, despite its serious injuries, for a few hundred meters. He was found by the hunters and killed shortly after.
This accident was made public by the association Abolissons la vénerie today (AVA), which fights for the abolition of hunting with hounds. Considered cruel, it consists of chasing a wild animal with a pack of dogs until it is killed.
“Two cars were damaged and a deer suffered an agonizing death,” the association summarized on Facebook. And he rails: “Once again, the chaos generated by hunting has delighted its practitioners at the expense of the world around them, which they have no use for.”
The hunters, for their part, defended themselves by affirming that there is currently no proven link between hunting and the accident, “the dogs being very far behind” the animal when it tumbled onto the road.
