(AP) — A patient and two staff members aboard a Beatrice ambulance escaped injury when the vehicle struck a deer on the southern edge of Lincoln.

The accident occurred around 5:10 p.m. Tuesday when the deer ran across the road in front of the ambulance.

The patient being transferred to a Lincoln hospital was taken the rest of the way by a Lincoln ambulance.

The Beatrice ambulance was towed back to Beatrice.