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I hit a deer years ago in the suburbs while driving along a quiet road - little traffic, deep ditches on both sides of the road, fall, right at dusk, so headlights were on, but it was not yet super dark. It bounded up out of the ditch in basically ran into the right front quarter panel. Luckily, my vehicle sustained only minor damage. The deer....not so much. It ended up feeding a few people at the food bank.
Yes, once on 80 west at night and another time on 79 North in midday. Both in western PA. That region is the most prone to deer accidents anywhere in America.
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Cant remember if my brights were on or not. Possibly so, as it was a very rural road with little to no traffic.
I hit her with the pickup and she didn't die. That was the worst part. I had shattered her pelvis from the looks of it and she was dragging her entire back half behind her, trying to crawl away.
Fortunately, I had a rifle with me so I put her down, but it really bothered me. The first and only deer I've hit, knock on wood.
I was 37.
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Twice, both in daylight. Neither time had any damage to my vehicle, the first time when I was 16 driving a 1958 Chrysler, which came out a lot better than the deer. The 2nd just 3 years ago in my Ranger. He stopped just as I did and was perfectly parallel to the front of my truck and we barely touched. He ran off and looked fine.
Yes, both times I slowed down enough to just bump them and they got up and ran off. I've also had a deer hit me, ran right into the side of my Blazer when I was doing about 30 mph.
If you see a deer cross the road you'd better slow down, chances are high there is another one behind it still in the brush ready to jump out in front of you.
Multiple times. Once, early in the morning, so technically daytime. Three times at night. My headlights are ALWAYS on, whether it's nighttime or daylight. And my high beams were on during two of the deer incidents. On one of the incidents, the deer came out and began racing my car, I hit my brakes when the deer literally jumped onto the hood, and then slid off over the front of the car and I ended up running over it. I had some windshield damage from that accident.
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Ugh!! It's more like "Have deer ever hit YOU?!"
When we lived in Missouri, we had 2 kamikaze deer plotted to destroy our van. One dark night on the way home from a job, a doe leapt in front of the van and dared me...too late! She was some coyote's lunch. A week or so later, within hours of the time the body repair was supposed to fix it, a buck with an attitude leapt out -- to the other side. He did the van in. Insurance said after that it was totaled!
Oh well, the van wasn't the greatest anyway. We were able to replace it...so far, no deer!
My son and I were traveling in the country in southern MN. A deer jumped out of a deep ditch and hit me as I passed by. For a second we locked eyes and I'll never forget the look on her face. I probably looked the same.
Her hoof came through the driver's side window and grazed my face. The windshield was broken and the total left side of the car was damaged. There we sat, me bloodied and our laps full of glass.
Instinctively I got out to see what condition the deer was in and she managed to get up and stagger into a cornfield. Later a deputy told me I was fortunate and reminded me to never get close to a wounded animal because of their tendency to spring up like that.
I don't know how it could have been avoided. One moment the road was clear and the next there we were face to face. We were lucky not to have been more severely hurt, I learned a few things about traveling in deer country in the fall and I have a lot more respect for what damage those smallish animals can do.
Can say it's ruined evening motorcycling in the countryside for me!
Instinctively I got out to see what condition the deer was in and she managed to get up and stagger into a cornfield. Later a deputy told me I was fortunate and reminded me to never get close to a wounded animal because of their tendency to spring up like that.
Either the deputy wasn't a hunter, or he thought you were a citidiot.
Leaving a wounded animal to die is inhuman.
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