West Penn Township Police said the shooting incident Sunday night in the township was the result of deer poaching.

Emergency personnel were called to the scene of a reported crash just before 10 p.m. and arrived to find the car in a cornfield on Roads End Road.A woman, who had been shot in the back, was found a short distance from the car, lying in the roadway.Chief of Police Brian Johnson said Kimberly Kokinda of Lansford was driving the car on Roads End Road with her boyfriend Raymond Meyers of Lehighton in the rear seat with a .22-caliber rifle.The pair spotted a deer in a field so Kokinda drove into the field, Johnson said.As Meyers was bringing up the rifle to shoot the deer, the rifle accidentally discharged, striking Kokinda in the back.When neighbors spotted the car in the cornfield they thought it was a crash.Kokinda was flown to St. Luke's Hospital Trauma Center in Bethlehem, where she is undergoing treatment, police said.Charges are pending by the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Johnson said.