I hit a big doe w/ my Toy Extra Cab 4X4 several yrs back. Cost me $2000 damage and I was lucky to have a super strong brushguard (True Radius Bending) otherwise it would have had more damage and I would have gotten stuck in CT as well.
Funny part of it is I was coming home from unsuccessfuly deer hunting and hit one going about 35 mph !! Lots of blood and fur. Hit it almost entirely broadside (more to passenger side). Stopped car and called my buddy up and state police came. PU was driveable. Looked for almost an hr - never found the deer.
Chances are it died, we just couldn't see much in the ground fog. My buddy went back out the next morning and looked some more.
I was glad I was in a vehicle where I was higher up. If I had hit it in a subcompact it could have come into the wind shield and done some harm.
Striperhound: you are lucky to be alive there dude - you were driving much faster than I was. Good to hear airbags work!!
Deer biologist in CT told me those whistles for deer that fit on the car don't work. It just gives the drive a better sense of false security.
Not sure if the electronic ones are effective or not. I'll have to ask him next time I see him.