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Monday, April 14, 2003

Mmmmm...Roadkill!

Alaska State Troopers report:
MI 1409 AK. HWY.....MVC/I.... ON 4-12-03 AT 2350 HOURS, ALASKA STATE TROOPERS IN DELTA JUNCTION RESPONDED TO A REPORT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION BETWEEN A VEHICLE AND THREE BUFFALO AT MILE 1409 OF THE ALASKA HWY. INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT DOUMANIAN ASHOTOVNA, 26 YOA OF CALIFORNIA, WAS TRAVELING EAST ON THE ALASKA HWY IN A 2002 HYUNDAI RENTAL CAR WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH THREE SEPARATE BUFFALO STANDING IN THE ROADWAY. INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT THE FIRST BUFFALO WAS STRUCK AND ROLLED OVER THE VEHICLE COMING TO REST ON THE FOG LINE. THE SECOND BUFFALO WAS STRUCK APPROXIMATELY TEN YARDS LATER BY THE PASSENGER SIDE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE, ROLLED ONTO THE HOOD, BROKE THE WINDSHIELD, AND BENT THE ROOF BACK AND FELL TO THE FOG LINE. THE THIRD BUFFALO WAS THEN STRUCK, APPROXIMATELY TEN YARDS BEYOND THE SECOND, BY THE DRIVER SIDE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE AND FELL TO THE CENTER LINE APPROXIMATELY 5 FEET IN FRONT OF THE NOW STOPPED VEHICLE. ASHOTOVNA WAS INJURED AND MEDIVACED TO FAIRBANKS BY LOCAL EMS. THE PASSENGER OF THE VEHICLE NATALIA KHOROCHKOVA, 26 OF CALIFORNIA WAS ASLEEP IN THE BACK SEAT AND WAS UNINJURED. SEATBELTS WERE UTILIZED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOTALED. ALCOHOL WAS NOT A FACTOR. (SRL0)

Up here we call them buff's "Alcan Speed Bumps."

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