Taken from an incident report by a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Deputy:

A 30-year-old South Kitsap woman and her young son survived a rollover collision on Wednesday, but a deer they’d hit wasn’t so lucky.

A Kitsap County sheriff’s deputy stopped at the 5500 block of Southwest Old Clifton Road around 9:54 a.m. after noticing a car “off the roadway on its top” with several other vehicles around it.

The deputy and another man forced the front passenger door of the vehicle open, freeing the woman who had been driving the car.

She told them that her son was in the back seat.

They found him upside down in a booster seat, unbuckled and removed him from the car.

The driver said she had swerved off the road to avoid hitting a deer, but she hit it anyway.

She was surprised not to see the deer near her car, she said.

A witness saw the deer flopping in the roadway for a while, but then it got up and ran into a field toward the woods, he said.

A deputy found the deer about 200 feet from the road, at the edge of the woods.

“It was alive and still flopping around,” according to his report.

The deputy shot and killed the animal, following standard procedures, after requesting permission to do so from his the shift sergeant.