A driver was killed over the weekend in Upstate New York after a freak accident with a deer.

The deadly crash happened just before 6:30 p.m. Sunday on State Route 19 in Pavilion, a rural town about 20 minutes northwest of Geneseo in Western New York .

A 68-year-old Pavilion woman was driving north on Route 19 when a deer ran onto the road, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office told WGRZ . Her SUV struck the deer, sending the animal flying through the windshield of an oncoming pickup truck, according to WHAM .

Michael Vaccaro, the Rochester man driving the pickup truck, died at the scene, WGRZ reported. He was 80 years old.

Deputies told WHAM that no one in the SUV that hit the deer was injured.

In addition to the sheriff’s office, members of the Pavilion and LeRoy fire departments

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