Posted on 09/14/2015 9:56:58 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The odds drivers will file a claim from hitting a deer, elk or moose are 1 in 169, according to the latest numbers from State Farm.
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So what if they have eaten everything that is green and now starve, never shoot Bambi or her kin, ever, no matter what!
Car wrecks? Too many cars already!
I’ve hit 3 of them myself over about 20 years.
Its a Michigan road hazard.
I hit one in North Carolina. I can’t believe that the states haven’t been sued by the auto insurance company for incompetence. They put big restrictions on hunting and do nothing about the deer population and the auto insurance companies are getting slammed year after year with claims. It is a travesty that the states are ignoring this worsening problem.
I was driving at night in rural Florida. Suddenly a deer leapt out and was hit by a truck in front of me. The truck in front of that one and the one behind it pulled over instantly. As I passed the drivers were all racing toward the deer. In the lead truck a guy was pulling out a chainsaw. Nothing goes to waste here. My neighbor, a woman, regularly stops to inspect dead deer. If there are no flies on it, it’s heading home in her trunk.
Yeah, ...and they never obey the Deer XING signs!! /s
We drove through northern Michigan last year and I was shocked at the number of dead deer on the side of the road, in various stages of decomposition.
Cows have nice eyes, and chickens are cute when they’re tame as well. Our family hunts and deer are plentiful, so we have no problem turning them into food.
Car wrecks hurt people - better to thin the deer population.
My niece hit a deer a few weeks ago. She lives in suburban Georgia.
Two and counting for me. It’s a part of life here in the hill country.
Dear liberal... BAM!
They flock (I know that is the wrong word) along the interstates here in the Memphis area.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD: “My wife is a terrible driver. The other day, she hit a deer.....it was in the zoo!”
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.
Just one, and it was glancing hit. The deer and vehicle both survived. But, it is challenging out here in the Hill Country!
I know the numbers are up because people don't go deer hunting like they used to. Almost everybody I see out there during hunting season are over 40 years old. Very few young people go hunting these days.
I think its a lot less likely for me these days because I’m usually home before dusk.
I got hit by a flying deer here in Washington.
It bounced off another Truck.
The meat looked a bit tainted to me so I passed, but the truck driver took it home. I told him he had dibs as the launch vehicle.
My old S10 pickup was easy to find a fender and hood and grill for so I made no claim. I even found them in the right color for $200 on craigslist.
I tend to scan back and forth a little further on the road now.
They really need to have bigger deer hunting seasons in areas where the deer population have caused a lot of damage to the local flora.
We had to replace all the front sheetmetal/fascia/lights/grille/windshield, but luckily the antlered idiot had enough momentum going crosswise that he didn't cave in the windshield and mess up me or my passenger.
From what I've seen so far this year, when the farmers start stirring the critters up during harvest, there are going to be some body shops keeping busy.
Mr. niteowl77
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