I hit a Mt. lion in Northern CA.
It was about 6 am during the summer, so it was light at the time. I was cruisin pretty good about 65.
I saw it only very briefly. It lunged out from the left side of the road and I saw it take like two humongous leaps in my direction, the final one with it’s left paw raised like it was ready to strike.
I’m driving a Nissan Sentra, I hear this huge BAM!, then it slams the left front side of the car. I drive about a quarter of a mile shaking like a leaf, stop, check the car, and go back.
Had barely clipped it on the front of the face with the lower left bumper, which had only a slight, almost unnoticable dent in it. The force of getting hit had spun her around so that she impacted my left tire, but the only damage it did was to destroy the wheel cover.
She was lying right in the center of the road on the yellow line, motionless and had lost already about two quarts of blood or so.
A California Dept of Fish and Game was driving by and stopped to make sure I was alright, which I was, but still quite shaken. Dragged her out of the road, took a ton of pics, and left.
Shoulda tossed her in the trunk and headed to the nearest taxidermist, would have been worth 3-5 K.
a good friend of mine hit a deer at 115mph on his motorcycle.
The deer won.