MASON CITY – A car load of teens spared a deer a collision, but wound up upside down in a ditch as a result.
Four teens received what law enforcement is calling “superficial injuries” after a car accident Tuesday night. The Cerro Gordo county sheriff’s office says that at 9:23 PM August 11, they received a report of a vehicle rollover at the 2200 block of Claybanks drive. A white 2014 Ford Escape driven by 16-year-old Brady Nicholas Tilkes of Mason City was found there on its top in the ditch. Tiles had lost control of the vehicle, left the roadway and the Escape came to a rest upside down.
Tilkes and his three passengers suffered minor injuries. The three passengers were 16-year-old Derek Michael Walker; 16-year-old Dylan Robert Voves; and 15-year-old Bailee Ann Galkin. All are from Mason City. None of the four teens sought nor received medical treatment.
The teens reported that they swerved to avoid striking a deer.
I blame this accident on our stupid DNR…
These dumb creatures are EVERYWHERE!!
If I was in charge we would hunt these things to the brink of extinction and then pay a bounty for every one after that..
We all pay higher insurance so people can go hunt these dumb things for their rotten meat…
I know, I know.. “I just haven’t had it cooked right”
If that crap was any good don’t you think all these farmers would just raise deer…
Experience is key on safe driving I wouldn’t doubt they had to swerve out of the way to not hit that deer. I drive home to Osage every day and there are deer everywhere ready to prance out of the ditches. You really have to be careful with all eyes focused on the road everyone makes mistakes and accidents happen glad they are okay!
I have heard so much garbage on this topic I had to chime in. I am also a parent of one of these kids, and I cannot say I know all the kids personally I can say they are not irresponsible kids. I don’t care if there was a deer or not. All of the kids including my own are ok. They had some cuts but nothing serious. I chalk this incident to poor YOUTHFUL decisions. I made mistakes like this as a youth, and I’m sure this will not be the only time we ever hear of this type of ACCIDENT. I do not blame Brady or any other child for this. Again it was a judgment by young teenagers. I thank God that everything ended as well as it did, and I also indirectly thank Ford Motor Company for the safety…
They were very lucky. I hope they learned from this.
As a parent of of one these kids, it doesn’t make a difference if there actually was a deer or not. I would hope they are telling the truth and are being responsible enough to do so but in the grand scheme of it all, it doesn’t matter. They are alive and there were no injuries. That is what is most important. You would be amazed by this if you seen what the car looked like.
Abe, youthfulness helps many things. They bend, we break
I have seen the pictures of the car and you are correct, glad no one was killed or seriously injured,
Exactly, hopefully they all learned something from this, and you never get another call like this. A lot of things are scary, but most of them pale to hearing that your child has been in an accident.
Thanks for this comment.
I once used that but my dad whooped my ass anyway, and then he whooped my ass for telling such a dumb lie.
The whoop ass didnt do any good. You havent learned a thing in all these years.
Yeah, “swerved to miss a deer”. I told my parents that one too.