A New Jersey woman was seriously injured after she was struck by a car while trying to help a deer that had been hit by another vehicle, police said.

Mount Olive police and Morris County prosecutors said the 24-year-old woman was mowed down by an SUV heading south on Patricia Drive around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, when police were called to the scene, according to NJ.com.

Cops reportedly found her in the darkened road near a deer that that had been struck some time earlier, according to WRJN radio.

She was airlifted to Morristown Medical Center with serious injuries.

The driver who struck the 24-year-old, a 29-year-old Flanders woman, was uninjured…

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