Drivers are 16% more likely to hit a deer next week — the time change may be why

kron ^ | 11/03/2022

[devane617]

fyi

[joshua c]

it is a higher percentage for hungry drivers

[mylife]

hint:

they move at dawn and dusk

[palmer]

Could also be rutting season.

[Erik Latranyi]

Yes, we change clocks around the time the bucks go into the rut where they chase does for sex recklessly and across traffic with no regard to danger.

[MotorCityBuck]

🦌 🦌 🏎

[BobL]

Most deer that I know don’t pay much attention to the time of day.

[metmom]

And I suppose it has nothing to do with hunting season and mating season, both of which cause deer to be on the move…..

[skimbell]

Yeah, that’s probably it.
Time change.
Yeah.

[neverevergiveup]

I’m going to spend a lot of time figuring out how to talk to deer. I will given them advice on how to avoid getting hit, and thus hopefully will also prevent human injury. I speak squirrel and chipmunk, but am still trying to master deer.

[blackdog]

Corn and soy bean harvests run combines straight thru the night and day. They tend to flush out the deer in a chaos. The deer just run from the sound into traffic. It’s also rut reason.

[dsrtsage]

“ but am still trying to master deer.”

If you get them in your headlights, it is very similar to talking sense to democrats

[Palio di Siena]

Exactly

[Vision]

It’s the start of the rut.

[mylife]

all true

[hinckley buzzard]

Arizona and Upper Peninsula don’t have time change. Guess the deer must not know it.

[Libloather]

Don’t like the extra hour of sunlight. Burns my grass.

[billorites]

Also 16% more likely to hit an illegal alien too.

Again, as a consequence of rutting season.

[nascarnation]

[Disambiguator]

They need to move the deer crossing signs to safer locations.