Just Hit a Deer

[chris L]

I never hit a deer before but I ran over a turtle once . we were both going slow !

[surfer247]

My friend hit a deer,and they do cause alotta damage to the car.I read an article that said more people die by deers ,than any other animal,meaning they cause more deaths than by snakes,alligators and dogs etc. etc. so you got lucky the accident was'nt more serious.

[Pete F.]

Moose are worse

[BW from AZ]

My cuz took a deer in the side of his HD. his better half watched it come out of a corn field jump and hit under his leg knocking him into the other lane. upright and dazed he stopped to figure out "what happened". never saw it coming with the helmet on. not to much damage to the bike and the deer got away.

[Pete F.]

One deer season my brother and a friend were going to pick up his car at a rural garage. Being deer season, of course they both had to keep a lookout for deer in the meadows on their respective sides of the road. And what do you think they ran into...

[JohnR]

Joe Flip hit a deer pretty good 7-8 years ago doing 60 or 70 IIRC. His cooler rack took most of the impact but the deer still came up and hit the A pillar of his truck... Can be nasty...

Now in fall 2003 I had a deer hit my truck rim. N odamage to the truck but the cop still shot the deer.

[Slingah]

ouch....glad ur okay Habs....

[cheferson]

Deer suck. Got my s-10, 1 week later smashed a massive buck 300 yards from my apartment, $2000 damage. Almost 1 year to the day about 100 yards from my new house , hit another deer . It hit the same exact area on my truck that i had dropped 2k getting fixed the year before #@%& !!!!!!

[JohnR]

Anyone get that Geico commercial jingle in their head reading the title this of this thread?

Burt Bakarak:

"Habs was hit, by a deer"

"The Lizard licks his eyeball"

ok - might need some cofee here

[wafarmer]

A small kangaroo truck one day old

Cheer's

wafarmer

[Jimbo]

I hit a deer a few years back in my Ford Ranger. I actually saw the herd crossing the road and slowed down as I approached. When it seemed like they were past I let up on the brake and no sooner hit the gas then it was like a flash going off plus the "bang" and those huge eyes. Driveable, but the grill and headlights were basically gone. To this day I can't drive that stretch of road without slowing down and anticipating it happening again.
It's fortunate for the most part people were ok and it was the expense of the accident that hurt most of all. I worry constantly about my 17 year old and her friends who drive. No matter how I caution them to be observant, especially at night, I know they drive too fast and don't pay as close attention as they should. I keep my fingers crossed they don't experience something like that at least untile they have a few more years of driving under their belts.

[Striperhound]

being in the rental car business you see alot. We had a 85 year old lady rent a Buick Century one day, hits a deer, deer comes through the windshield, she ducks and it ends up in the back seat, head rests bent backwards. At that point the thing is not dead and goes crazy kicking out every remaining window in the car just like the movie Tommy boy. There was so much deer hair in the car it looked like someone shaved it. Lady had to clean her depends after that one.

[greenrod]

i never hit a deer or anything that big. but i did hit a turkey on RT.2 going a little to fast in one of works trucks, never even saw the thing. all i saw was feathers. the guy i work with in the truck behind he was still laughing when we got ot the job.