By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

November starts the major spike in car/deer crashes in Kansas, according to Kansas Highway Patrol Technical Trooper Tod Hileman.

Hileman provided a map of the 2014 crashes in KHP Troop D, headquartered in Hays.

“The top numbers are the total number of crashes and the bottom are the number of injuries. I’m happy to report there were no fatalities for us out here,” Hileman said in a news release.

“You can see the east side of northwest Kansas had the most collisions last year and Norton County had the most of the 18 counties with 123 reported.”

Ellis County wasn’t far behind in 2014, with 121 car/deer crashes and 7 injuries to drivers and/or passengers recorded.

KHP troopers had already investigated 40 deer incidents by Oct. 20 of this year.