Orange Line faces unusual delays

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Update 12:10 p.m.:

The deer did not survive its time on Metro’s Orange Line tracks, according to agency spokesman Dan Stessel.

“We were all rooting for it this morning,” he said. “It wasn’t meant to be.”

The animal had been running around the tracks for a couple of hours Monday morning, apparently having gotten past the fences that line the tracks. But it can be hard for a deer to gain enough speed to leap back over the fences and return to the wild.

Although trains had been slowed down in the area, the deer was struck around 10:28 a.m., he said. That caused another round of delays as Metro police and crews had to check the train and remove the deer carcass.