[VIDEO & AUDIO BELOW] In what police are calling a comedy show, a deer was caught on dashcam video jumping into a vehicle and struggling with the driver, before it was kicked out.

At approximately 8pm on September 17, Patrolman Nicholas Austin #654 was responding to a call for service while traveling on Oak Glen Rd., approximately one mile west of Rt. 547, when he observed a deer cross the roadway from right-to-left several hundred feet in front of him.

Ptl. Austin wasn’t sure if the vehicle, a 2008 GMC Envoy, travelling in front of him struck the deer until the vehicle pulled over to the side of the road. Ptl. Austin also pulled over to provide assistance to the driver, Ellen Sager, 43 of Howell.

While doing so, the same deer that Sager had just struck ran back across the roadway left-to-right and attempted to jump into Sager’s vehicle as she opened the door. Sager was still in the driver’s seat with the door open as the deer attempts to climb over her and into the vehicle.

Sager physically struggled with the rather large deer and had to kick the deer out of her vehicle and quickly close the door to keep it out.

“Ptl. Austin was nearly as surprised as Sager and the two shared a laugh after the incident,” police said today.

Sager reported a minor injury to her knee as a result of the “scuffle”.

Unfortunately, the deer succumbed to its injuries as a result of the impact with the vehicle.

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Listen to the police officer’s radio transmission.