Posted on 12/03/2008 4:47:38 PM PST by goldstategop
Last night, I hit a deer on a pitch dark road on the way home. Amazingly, the car was mostly unscathed and drivable and I could see the deer hit the road after it flew over the roof. The poor thing. Has any one has an accident like that? I think its an "act of god" type situation.
My daughter hit a deer about a mile from our home. She was only doing about 40, but it did about 2K worth of damage to our VW Rabbit. The deer jumped in front of the car from the right, and the car hit her left rear pretty hard. Her head swung around and dented the side of the car. The deer took off, but I saw her several years later. She had a gimpy left rear leg from where the car hit her.
We have a friend who wasn’t so lucky. He was going about 50 when a big buck dashed out in front of him. It landed on the hood, went over the roof scaping it with his antlers, then dented the trunk on his way off. I think my friend said it was about $25 thousand dollars worth of damage to a $75 thousand dollar Mercedes. He was grateful to be alive, but bummed none the less.
I did, about 3 years ago. It was raining and I couldn’t see the deer coming because of a car slightly ahead of me on my left. All of the sudden it was right in front of me and I hit it. Good thing too! Had I seen it coming I probably would have tried to swerve or something and caused a bigger accident.
Well, guess where it happened....the Kennedy Space Center.
KSC is in the middle of the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge. Lots of critters running around.
Asphalted whitetails - Over the last twenty years, my wife and I have killed one with the Astro van, three with two different Plymough Voyagers, four for the Chevy S-10, one and a probable to the Pontiac Grand Am, and a double-verified double kill with a Taurus. Wacked the deer and slid into a guy’s front yard & permanently defoliated his Japanese Maple in that particular instance.
I had a horse (and rider) hit me and do a barrel roll over my hood. A young girl wanted to ride her girlfriend’s horse. She had never been on a horse. She got on it and started kicking the horse and yelling giddy-up. The horse soon got up a full head of steam and blasted out of the park they were in. We happened to meet as she exited the park just as I went by. They had to put the horse down, the kid wasn’t in too bad a shape (although she went to the hospital) and my insurance agent said to go home, do not even call to see how she was, and they would take care of everything. They did. My little Mustanghad a pretty flat hood and hoofprints on the roof above my head though.
I hit the same deer TWICE in one night, with TWO different railroad engines.
I got called for Amtrak “lite engines” (engines without a train) from New Haven to Boston one night. In those days the engineman worked these jobs alone (not even a brakeman to go along if needed), leaving around 9.30pm after the last passenger train going east up the Shore Line.
They were old and clunky Amtrak “work engines”, the maximum speed was 60mph for the 160 mile trip.
So I’m on the way up. Coming around to Lord’s Point in the Stonington area, a deer was on the track and I hit it. No damage to the engine, didn’t stop, just kept going to Boston.
Got to Boston, and they had two more engines parked and waiting for the trip back.
Coming back to Lord’s Point, here’s the carcass of the deer on the OTHER track - must have landed there after it was struck. Hit it again!
How’s that for odds?
- John
When there is a lightning storm, do you notice people slowly moving away from you?
Ther first one I hit was with a car we’d had about 3 weeks. 11:00 at night after picking hubby up at work. Deer runs out in front of me, slides up the hood and breaks the windshield. I’m in tears, more over the car than the stupid rat with antlers. My then 3 year old is in the middle of the back seat—strapped into his car seat, he got a wonderful view of the whole thing—is screaming. Mommy, you not opposed to hit the deer! Hubby is LHAO, got out and finished off the deer. Sure was tasty! The only good deer is one in my freezer/stove/dehydrator!
We had a streak where we hit at least one a year for about 10 years. And people wonder why I’m all for deer hunters!
Hit a deer (a small buck IIRC) in October ‘05. Mangled the front-end of my 2001 Grand Am, but it was driveable. Scared the poo outta me.
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