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Five Newfoundland drivers hit moose within the space of only 80 minutes Thursday morning — one of them while rubbernecking at another moose collision.

“It appears that one vehicle may have struck a moose while trying to see what was happening across the highway at another crash minutes earlier,” RCMP said in a press release sent to Newfoundland media.

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There were no serious injuries, but the collisions appeared to have turned several vehicles into write-offs, with one truck pitched sideways into the ditch with its front end crumpled.

The crashes all took place on the Avalon Peninsula, within about 100 kilometres of St. John’s. Three occurred along the Trans-Canada Highway, with one each in the communities of Conception Harbour and Bellevue.

All the moose were killed at the scene.

Newfoundland is home to the highest concentration of moose in the world, with approximately 120,000 of the animals roaming the island. That’s roughly one moose for every four Newfoundlanders. And with each individual weighing up to 545 kilograms, the island’s moose population outweighs its human population.