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. NewWest.Net s Anne Medley spent a day with Connell as he picked up casualties of the road and transported them to one of several composting pits designed to turn road kill into soil in 45 days. Due to the graphic content of this video, viewer discretion is advised.
