My dad....at age 80....having lived his entire life in a rural area of Alabama....had a deer-truck accident about four years ago. All those years, probably over 1.5 million miles driven, and that was the first one.
I live in Germany. On the road between my village and the nearest urban city (over 100,000)....which is barely six miles....we have this safety sign that went up three years ago. They note that since 2010 (they keep a track of this), there’s been roughly 100 deer-vehicle accidents on this six-mile stretch over this time-period. I’d say well over ninety-percent are in the evening hours.
You’d think that people would ask questions and demand hunters get aggressive....but nothing occurs.
There is an especially dangerous time of the evening, just after the sun sets and it is still light, but everything has that ‘grey’ quality about it before it gets really dark- The deer are nearly invisible in that and the stupid things run right out in front of you.
You would think they would at least try to avoid hitting the big moving thing coming right at them. They don’t run into trees or other deer...