Man Flown to Hospital After Muddy Creek Accident

UPDATE (2:30 p.m.)—A 46-year-old man was flown to an unknown hospital early Tuesday after he swerved to miss a deer and struck a tree on Muddy Creek Road in Galesville, according to Anne Arundel County Police spokesman Justin Mulcahy.

The man was driving a 1990 Volvo and was approaching Crandell Road when he hit the tree around 4 a.m., Mulcahy wrote in an email to Patch.

“[The driver] rounded a bend in the road and observed a deer standing in the roadway. The driver swerved right to miss the deer and subsequently struck a tree,” Mulcahy wrote in the email.

Muddy Creek Road was closed from 4:10 a.m. and reopened about an hour later, according to the police spokesman.

Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman Lt. Cliff Kooser said Maryland State Police flew the driver to a nearby medical center, but couldn’t specify which one. The man suffered serious, but non-life threatening injuries, Kooser said.