I took one through the windshield. It died on the way in and landed on the unoccupied passenger seat. I continued home, but the car was old and essentially totaled.
I hit three last year...after 40 years of deerless driving, over half in rural Wisconsin. Two with the work truck, one with my Dodge Ram. $1,000 bucks of damage. You were, indeed, lucky.
yep.
a problem across much of the united states. si.
i grew up in colorado and it was always a fear of hitting a deer.
in austin, tx i like the way ranchers have metal guards around their pickups so that there’s only damage to the deer and not the pickups!
Yep. I hit one like that with a geo metro once, several years ago. I switched to pickups immediately after.
I have two words for you.
Venison jerky!
Took out the grill and radiator.
We went back with a gun,to make sure it wasn't suffering,it was gone.
I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope you are okay. I say a prayer every time I go out when it’s dark, that God will keep all the critters away from my truck or that I’ll see them in time. It’s working so far.
A few deer were crossing a state hwy one night in Minnesota, hit a doe doing 60 or so , mostly quarter panel damage in the left, had it turned into venison sausage and bambiburger .. could have nailed an elk once too ,, went right between 2 big ‘uns middle of the night in Wyoming doing about 80.. elk ain’t meat either.. I was damn lucky that night.
http://www.statefarm.com/about/media/media_archive/deer.asp
They are pretty tough sob's.
Several friends of our have been in that type of accident.
In both incidents, vehicles totaled, but they lived due to
safe vehicles.
The old school Crown Vic took two head-on big buck hits to kill it. The VW Dasher took a side-glancing hit, as did a Honda Civic. The Geo Metro was run off the road to avoid a a deer and ran into a guard rail.
The township has hired a company that hunts using bow and arrow to thin the herd. That's an on-going action. It has really helped a lot.
Good way to tenderize it.
My husband hit a deer about nine months ago. We did not have collision coverage on our car at the time due to its age (’97 Nissan Altima). Our insurance company totaled the car and cut us a check for the book value. We were very lucky!
Be glad you didn't hit a moose
Seriously, I was driving to town on the first day of deer season just after dark and an oncoming car put his high-beams on. I brighted him but he wouldn't take his off high beam. I figured "jerk" and kept going. Just after we passed this =psycho= deer leaps into the R front of my car from the left side of the road, essentially ramming my car.
Apparently it was on the left side of the road just at the location that our 2 cars passed each other and the effect of the oncoming vehicle's brights no longer shining at the deer seems to have caused it to bolt into the road (and my car) once the other car had passed it.
And that's how I was hit by a deer.
I’ve taken out two elk like that. The first one went right over the top, like your deer. Scared the crap out of him though because sh!t all the way over. The car was drivable but there was green elk crap in GREAT quantity front to back.