When a nervous fawn sitting in the middle of the road saw safety through the open driver’s side door of a Marin County sheriff’s patrol car on Friday morning, it made a run for it.

Those good instincts and the quick reactions of two sheriff’s deputies helped reunite the baby deer with its mother after the baby froze in the street at the intersection of Marin Avenue and Marin Drive in Tam Valley.

“It was a happy ending,” said Lt. Nina Snyder, who released a video by on-scene deputies Adam Schermerhorn and Donya Halawa on Monday morning.

According to Snyder, neighbors and passersby called authorities and deterred traffic in the area after the fawn was discovered in the road. When deputies arrived, they opened their doors to gather gear.

That’s when the fawn jumped behind the driver’s seat before slithering deftly over a deputy’s coffee cup, moving between the front seats and out the passenger side door.

Halawa carefully picked up the fawn and delivered it to the bushes near the deer’s nervous mother before the pair bounded off to safety.