A deer in the road was partly to blame for a Villisca teen losing control of the vehicle he was driving Thursday night. The 2003 Dodge Dakota pickup driven by 17-year old Cole Louis Sunderman, of Villisca, was traveling north on Union Avenue at around 10:45-p.m., when he swerved to avoid a deer. The pickup got too close to the soft shoulder of the gravel road, and slid into the ditch before rolling over and coming to rest on the driver’s side. The pickup, registered to Denise Sunderman, sustained $2,000 damage. There were no injuries reported, and no citations issued.