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(KSL News) Road kill along the highway isn't a strange site, but it can be a risky one.
The Utah Department of Transportation says between 1992 and 2001, there were 22 thousand car crashes just involving deer, elk, or moose.
Big game is especially dangerous. Ten people have died in accidents with large animals, and 300 people have been injured.
In addition, big animals cause major damage to cars. Plus, it costs the Utah Division of Wildlife about 400 thousand dollars a year to remove animal carcasses.
UDOT wants to build more fences along freeways over the next several years, and it wants to build wildlife overpasses and even underpasses so animals can cross the street safely.
In the meantime, officials try to give drivers added visibility by keeping vegetation along the highways at a minimum.
