BUFFALO, N.Y. — One man has died following a car crash involving a deer in Genesee County.

According to the Genesee County Sheriff's Office, sheriff's deputies responded to a fatal motor vehicle accident Oct. 19 on Route 19.

Investigators say Sheree Panek, 68, of Pavilion was traveling northbound on Route 19, when they hit a deer that had run onto the road. The deer then went airborne, and flew into the windshield of a car operated by 80-year-old Michael Vaccaro of Rochester. Vaccaro's car then drifted off the road and into a ditch.

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Vaccaro suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. All passengers in Panek's vehicle, which hit the deer, were unharmed.

The Pavilion and LeRoy Fire Departments provid

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