“Not necessarily. If the deer rolls up onto the hood and through the windshield at highway speed, you’re going to be seriously injured if not killed.”
My neighbors had that happen with a horse that broke loose and got on the highway. Right through the windshield on their laps. They were hurt pretty bad.
My first thought at seeing the headline... “Oh deer!”
There was a multiple fatality accident not far from where I live, due to vehicles hitting a horse. Nighttime, bad storm, horse panicked and got loose, onto a roadway. Poor visibility, black horse. It was a sad story all around, two families lost a parent, horse was well-loved, owners horrified and grief-stricken. I still think of that when I drive through there.