Be careful out there.

[Brother Cracker]

Yesterday morning I was traveling at 45 mph down a semi rural two-lane highway on my way to a doctor's appointment when suddenly a large buck with a huge rack flashed in front of me. An oncoming SUV hit the deer on the rump tossing it off the highway. I was driving subcompact and had I approached a split-second sooner the buck and I would've undoubtedly stopped there -- permanently.

Be careful out there.

[Brother Cracker]

Internet Photo

[miss marmelstein]

Yeah, this is a bad time of year for traveling on country (or even suburban) roads.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Rats with hooves.

[rfreedom4u]

A fellow Marine was driving a Chevette in NC back in 1986. He hit a deer and totaled his car. The deer hopped up and ran off.

People (libs) don’t understand that hunting helps control the deer population. If it weren’t for hunting there would be many more deer/auto collisions.

[Lucky9teen]

I'm glad I live in AZ, where we really get no weather. Be careful out there FRiends.

Here's a classic that'll make ya smile

[TADSLOS]

It’s the rut. Bucks, in particular, are totally unpredictable now. I live in a neighborhood that has plenty of deer around. They are crazy even when we are driving at slow residential street speeds. You never know which way they will go or how fast. I’ve even seen them run full speed into vehicles stopped at intersections.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Delicious ‘rats’. ;)

[Dr. Thorne]

Had a near miss last week at night, out in the country (no ground light) at highway speed, even though the highway had high fences on both sides to stop just this kind of thing. Many Obola can sign an executive order to force deer to wear flashing lights for safety - theirs, not ours.

[Brother Cracker]

[McGruff]

Deer are very unpredictable. I’ve had one run run beside my car (I saw him beforehand) and then just cross in front of my car for no reason. Luckily I was going slow at the time.

[Lucky9teen]

[Brother Cracker]

[grobdriver]

Smile?

Howabout bust a gut!

[Responsibility2nd]

We don’t hit deer. Deer hit us.

Many years ago a deer ran into the side of my father’s car. Just this year a deer ran into the side of my wife’s car.

Stupid deer.

[HangnJudge]

I hit a deer once, at ~50MPH
I was on a motorcycle.

I did the usual damage that comes with
abruptly going from vertical to horizontal

I almost cut the deer in 2 I hit it so hard.

Bummer

[Brother Cracker]

[central_va]

I’d hit it.

[bolobaby]

Problem #1 - you were driving a subcompact and you are posting on FreeRepublic.

Get a truck. ;-)

[Bratch]

Was that Ringo?

[Brother Cracker]

I used to have the truck — see my homepage.