North Austin, TX back in the 1980’s. Road was 3 lanes each direction, morning rush hour, 60 mph and a full size pickup truck in the center lane was in front of Me about 200’. Bambi comes out of the neighborhood on the left and runs across those 3 lanes and the median and our fast lane, leaps over hood of the truck and I’m watching it and am waiting for it to clear the truck hood and continue on to the woods on the right. But Bambi doesn’t reappear ! Next thing I see is the cab rear glass shattering and Bambi coming out of the cab and into the bed of the truck. By this time I am passing the truck in the right lane and don’t see anyone driving the truck but it’s still going straight ahead.
Everybody behind us was stopping so I just kept going. Don’t know if the driver was injured or what.
I’ve heard stories of deer jumping in front of a rifle bullet and sacrificing itself but never loading itself in the back of the truck and offering to go home to the freezer.
My little brother and a friend were going camping and took off early in the morning. Before they got two miles down the road to LBL, a young buck leaped across their path, smashed into the windshield and broke it’s neck dead.
They were just 17 and it scared them sh_tless. Needlessly to say their trip was postponed.