LOGAN, W.Va. — An early morning collision in Logan County left two of West Virginia’s elk dead.
The cow elk and her bull calf were struck and killed by an ambulance on U.S. Route 119 south of Logan near Whitman. The collision happened around 3 a.m..
The ambulance was not hauling any patients and nobody was injured in the collision.
It’s the second time since the elk were reintroduced in 2016 a vehicle has struck one of the animals. The first incident happened back in the spring when a bull elk was struck in Logan County. The elk survived that incident.
One of the elk killed in today’s incident was one of those introduced last year and the calf was one of two born in the state after the reintroduction.
Division of Natural Resources biologists are performing a necropsy on the two elk.