Posted on 03/11/2022 8:55:43 AM PST by SJackson
Edited on 03/11/2022 8:26:35 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
There are a lot of bad decisions you might make if a deer appears in front of you in the road while you’re driving. You’ll be startled, it will freeze, and your brain will sound the alarm that you should do something now—but please, avoid the urge to swerve around it.
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Oh, see the deer
Has the deer a little doe?
Why soitenly....Two Bucks! *slap*
I had to run over a bobcat years ago. I was driving down the Kern River Canyon at 4 am and a bobcat jumped down from a small cliff directly in front of me. If it had happened a millisecond later he might have gone through the windshield. After running him over there was no way I was going back.
I learned that lesson when I was 20, living in Monterey. Someone’s Airedale dog got off his leash and ran into traffic. I was riding a motorcycle, swerved, but, as the owner had just called the dog it made a quick turn BACK and right into my path.
Of course I’d stood on the brakes, maybe going 10 mph but still center-punched the dog, flipped the bike and me and my girlfriend went a$$ over teakettle into the lane - neither of us, thankfully, injured other than some scuffed pants/shoes.
The dog, however, back visibly broken, howling in pain dragged itself off to the curb where its owner showed up to comfort it in its last dying moments.
I had nightmares about that for years. Poor dog.
I got information from him, name, address, phone number, gave him my insurance information and he skipped town the next day. I knew his mom as a patient in the clinic where I worked at the Presidio and asked her to tell him I was fine, damage to the bike was minor and I wasn’t going to sue. She looked relieved but said she had no idea where he was.
Yeah.
GF left too.
I ran over a squirrel 20 years ago in my neighborhood and a neighbor behind me quoted the riot act while I was getting out of my car in my driveway screaming “why didn’t you swerve!!!?”
I just shrugged and said “God will make more,” and went inside.
I think her name was Karen.
Coincidentally, our house was egged a few nights later.
From the archives of the Captain Obvious and Department of redundancy department.
I remember when I took my driver safety class, the teacher said, “You’re driving in traffic, and little Fluffy comes darting across the road, what do you do?......SMOKE FLUFFY!”
The point being of course swerving endangers other cars.
Local vegetable stand sign:
“Road Kill...$19.99/lb”
I remember when it was free. AND, it was easier to get home if it was already lodged in your windshield.
I had a girlfriend once who swerved for everything. It was quite scary in the fall, because she even swerved for leaves that were blowing around. We nearly had a head on collision driving down a mountain in Vermont because of leaves. We had several arguments over it.
With modern ABS system it’s OK to hit the brakes but at speed I never try to swerve. One time my girls observed my behavior with a rabbit in the road and they yelledat me and I just said “I love my kids more than I love that rabbit.
Around here the rule is that unless it is a big cow or horse you hit it in a straight line
Right, Moose and Elk are the ones I would try not to hit, more so than a whitetail. If you hit a moose with a car and he notices, he’ll probably get mad.
Best of all, it comes pre-grilled
Yep. Take the hit. The wife and I have been involved in 4 car-deer collisions here in Eastern Nebraska (one was in Northeast Kansas). It is always best to just hit em and deal with the damage. One that my wife was involved in north of Manhattan ended up with antlers through the windshield on the passenger side. That was a bloody mess but no two legged animals were injured. The Camry did not end up so well, though.
I didn’t look - was this written by a 7-year-old (for a school project) or Kamala Harris?
Six months ago a deer teleported in front of my car. There was no time to swerve or brake. There was minor damage to my vehicle. The deer was killed instantly.
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Star Trek teleporting deer. The most dangerous of all.
I was in the Boston area many years ago on a business trip. On a warm spring day, as I pulled into the left-turn lane, a squirrel ran in front of me. I slowed down to avoid hitting it. It was no big deal since the left-turn arrow was red, anyway.
Well, the guy behind me started laying on his horn and cursing me a blue streak. I can still hear him yelling at me: “Damn you, are you crazy?! Around here we don’t stop for squirrels. Just hit it!”
So much for doing a nice, little good deed around Boston!
The woman who tends the property next to ours in Idaho had a deer hit her nice, new Toyota Tundra pickup truck last fall. She was just driving to her next appointment in the hills and BAM! The deer smacked her truck’s right side. There were a couple of huge dents in the sheet metal from the door to the rear and, surprisingly, a real deep dent at the corner sheet metal where it is strongest. It looked like a few thousand dollars of repair work.
The moral of my stories? Sometimes you can avoid the animal. Sometimes you can’t. And sometimes the animal is going to hit you no matter what you do!
Whoever wrote this
Some urban hipster chick who only knows deer from the ones she sees off the Taconic parkway or on the Palisades when she leaves Brooklyn for what she calls a real hike
I live near the natchez trace
A 440 mile long winding two lane federal road perfectly constructed and huge pasture shoulders with lush blue grass fescue on the north end and carpet like st Augustine on the south half
As good a grazing lane as known for cloven animals ...
I’ve hit two on it in 64 years
I’ve known tons of folks likewise same
And deer are everywhere now pretty much
Deer will run into a headlight not from it at sometime
It makes no sense but they do
They dodge better than squirrels but they are not always in full avoid the car mode
Unpredictable ...I’ve moved and missed 100s of deer in my life
Article is not accurate
The only thing that I am swerving for is a human.
If there are so many deer in an area that they are wandering onto roads and freeways, they should probably be culled. These are not endangered animals - if anything, there are far too many of them.
At 60 mph in a car, a deer tried to jump over it, failed and come in through the windshield to land dead in the passenger seat.
I ducked behind the A-Pillar for a second to two and drove home with no windshield and surrounded with glass shards.
So yes, when at speed, don’t leave the road.
A 100 pound deer does a lot of damage to a car or truck
Hitting livestock is bad news
I was in a car hit a cow once
Cow was already hit on its side
It was blood guts and poop everywhere as the car careened over it
We thought we’d hit it first.....it was night
We were out past camp Kickapoo nw of Jax Miss at 2am stoned as Kesey and I’m sure had been drinking ....very rural
Farmer showed up with his tractor to pull her off the road....a Holstein
We were man we are so sorry we hit your cow
He’s like I’m sorry the smell on your car this cow has been hit a few times now
Surreal.....we were at the beach months later and in the heat u could still smell under that lemans sport
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