Letter: Deer incident on Highway 9 was handled properly by CHP

Editor,
In your Aug. 29 Press-Banner, Letters and Shout-Outs, entitled “Roadside animal euthanasia unnecessarily inhumane,” a reader wrote in of her interpretation of an incident in Boulder Creek.
I believe this how it actually happened.
This was Friday rather than Thursday.
On Friday, Aug. 22, I was driving south through Boulder Creek.
A huge deer flew onto the highway and crashed into the passenger side of my car, breaking the window and doing much harm to himself and my car.
The stunned and badly injured buck staggered some yards north and collapsed by the roadway. He was a danger to himself and those around him.
A CHP officer arrived shortly thereafter. The deer had gotten into some berry bushes which were tangled in his antlers.
The officer put the deer down with his sidearm, as was needed. He did employ a device used to restrain dogs, which he hooked around the antlers to pull the buck from the bushes, in order for Caltrans to remove it.
This is how it really happened. Both the CHP and Caltrans handled it properly.
J. Lee Melter,
Boulder Creek