Area woman injured avoiding deer on Route Y

A Jackson woman received moderate injuries Friday when she wrecked her vehicle while trying to avoid a deer, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported.

Katherine Teichman, 56, was eastbound on Route Y about eight miles east of Jackson in a 2001 Ford when the accident occurred, the patrol said.

The wreck happened about 9:20 a.m. when Teichman swerved to avoid the deer, then ran off the road and hit an embankment, the patrol reported.

Teichman was taken by ambulance to Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.