Posted on 04/04/2022 5:13:07 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Too many bears in this state also. Wandering around city neighborhoods. Some child is going to get mauled before they do something about it.
I watched a deer hit my parents car some years ago.
About 1100 on a sunny warm day, neighborhood street with some trees, but it was not like it couldn’t see it coming. I am following them about 50’ behind at maybe 30 mph when the doe runs up and just slams into the left rear door.
Such a wary, easily spooked animal and it just slams into the side of a slow moving car.
Another time I saw a decent buck jump a fence right beside the gravel road and get eviscerated upon landing by the front bumper of a pickup going maybe 20 mph. I am following them in a loud rattly diesel pickup.
Wife and I hit one in Colorado. Lucky for us it slipped and fell and we went up and over it rather than it coming thru the window. Surprisingly very little damage to the car until I notice the front tires wearing out on the inside of the tire. Deer had wrecked the alignment and camber on both wheels.
Many close calls, only one direct hit. The deer ran fast into the right front of my rental car. I was going about 40MPH. Somehow it moved back into the trees afterward, but I don’t see how it could have survived that impact. There was a bloody chunk of fur and flesh in the torn metal of the hood.
Late 80s hit one one evening just after dark. Took the car to be repaired and they found a bit of one end of the antler in under the cowl cover. Like most here it leapt out of the ditch with no warning and there was nothing I could do but hit it dead on. Probably doing about 55 MPH. Did not see it again.
Hit another one about 10 years later near dusk. Had just rained and I saw him in time. Put on my brakes but because the pavement was wet I skidded. Pumped brakes and just barely kissed him with my front bumper. Bent up the license plate, but that was all.
Get back to me when they bag three in one hit (my current record) 🤣🤣🤣
I had one of the best deer collisions. I was slowly driving down an an unfamiliar narrow driveway down ramp, and the large, even fat buck walked out from one bush heading towards another bush 10 feet away on the other side of the driveway.
bump. I was riding my brake so instantly stopped, as did the buck, still in front of the car. Then he looked at me. After the fact, I imagined him saying something to the effect of “Bloody tourist!”, before he walked away, none the worse for wear. Didn’t damage the car, either.
The doe stepped right in front of me from out of
the fog, from off of the shoulder of the road.
I hit it even before I could hit the brakes.
I stopped and got out. The poor thing was in
agony. I turned the truck around to go and
get a rifle to put the thing out of it's misery -
but by the time I got back, it had already died.
Back in 1982, I worked for United Technologies Research Center on an automated casting facility project in Middletown, CT. I was driving my porsche 911T along a winding road through the woods to the facility. A deer jumped out in front of the car and for a split second our eyes locked and then I hit it. The game warden showed up and took the deer for a needy family. The insurance investigator found deer hairs on the smashed headlight lens, an open and shut case for him.
I always dreaded hitting one on my motorcycle which I need to sell one of these days to avoid my luck running out 🤪
Hit a cow once and it totaled the car.
Well, just thought you may have been galavanting around Europe
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I came close to hitting one years ago in a Chicago suburb right after I got some expensive work done on my 1982 Olds 88. He froze in front of me and I got the car stopped just in time. My cousin’s husband was killed five years ago when he hit a deer and it came through the windshield.
Did you pick up a common spare or was it a 6, 7, 10 split?
I was driving home from Odessa to San Antonio at dusk. I’m doing 70 on 10 East and a buck comes over the side of the rail and lands on my left front quarter panel, dislodging everything and took the cable harness with it. As quickly as he hit my car, he went right back over the guardrail and back into the wooded median.
I slowed down after the strike and pulled off the road. Someone told me many years back if you see you are going to strike and animal keep going. Every light on the dash was red.
Be thankful you are safe.
If a deer misses you, be very cautious as they are herd critters.
Never drive off the road to miss a deer.
If you hit a tree, you may need a body bag.
Sous chefs and regular chefs often carry a complete deer tenderloin removal kit for emergency use in case of a suicidal deer attack on their vehicle.
There is a 25 mile stretch of highway between Kinston and New Bern in Eastern NC that has had 100 yard red stains ending in a bit of fur every time I have driven it.
Semi trucks at 80 mph vaporize deer.
Imagine driving down the road and a fish is dropped onto your windshield. LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B__wzPA4jo4 -- bird dropped fish onto truck driver's windshield
We make breaded cutlets. Steak and eggs is fine, too.
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