Ever wonder what happens to that dead deer beside the road?

Not many want Larry Connell’s job. But after 29 years of removing road kill from Montana’s highways for the Montana Department of Transportation, he still has a sense of humor.

“If you get these soon enough, you can eat ‘em. From one grill to another, you know?”

Across four million miles of roads in the United States, 253,000 animal/ vehicle accidents occur annually, with 90 percent of those accidents involving deer. According to a Montana Department of Transportation advisory issued in 2005, collisions between automobiles and large animals have quadrupled in the past 20 years.