(KNZA)--A Seneca, Kansas  man and his passenger escaped serious injury early Saturday morning in a car-deer wreck on Interstate-229 in St. Joseph.

The Missouri Highway Patrol report indicates 23-year-old Taddeus Kuhlman was northbound when his Nissen Maxima struck the deer.  His car traveled off the right side the highway and struck a guardrail.  The vehicle then went back across both northbound lanes of I-229, crossed the median and came to rest in the southbound passing lane of the intersection.

Kuhlman and his passenger, 20-year-old O’Neill, Nebraska resident Ashley Everitt,  both refused medical treatment at the scene for what the Patrol described as minor injuries.

The wreck was reported about 12:45 Saturday morning.