Good thing no one was in the passenger seat at the time, might have been a different outcome.
I am always terrified at night when I drive in upstate Pennsylvania visiting relatives, roads are pitch black, I’m afraid a deer is going to jump out and I’m going to hit it. I try to get behind a large truck. In the morning, there are always dead deer along the highway.
I hit a deer on I-70 just west of Kansas City in September of 1974....................IN A PINTO!..............