$%$#@ ing Deer!

Sorry to hear about that.
Hope the deer can find OEM parts for his /her repairs.
Gary

 

From DeerChat.com:

Glad to hear you're alright. Sorry to hear about the car and the deer.

Peace,

Dave

 

Holy cow, how fast did you drive in a deer-infested dark way?
Still, glad you're OK and cars can always be fixed or replaced.

 

No kidding . . . dear travel the same routes, so it's easy enough to know where they'll likely pop up, and driving accordingly will keep you out of harms way. That said, the 'other half' has ignored that fact, and smacked a good sized mule dear. Fortunately, it was in the old Ford Exploader prior to replacing it with the Prius. The animal slipped on the ice, and went under the SUV. By the time the Ford was parked in the garage, it smelled like someone was grilling ... what with all the goodies that ended up cooking on the exhaust system. The dogs got real greasy, crawling under the SUV to do some snacking on the remnants. Kinda grotesque.

 

That's the way it is up here too. Despite some efforts to limit the deer crossing points by putting up signs, the deer refuse to cooperate and cross wherever and whenever they see fit. I'm starting to think that they can't read.

Tom

 

Somebody hit a deer at 140 mph on the autobahn. They couldn't figure out what happened to the deer.

WARNING: picture is gory.

 

I see Deer Crossing signs all the time in my area. I've seen 3 deer on the hill where i live coming home and a fox at Mesa College walking to my car. We also have a coyote problem

 

Looks like the deer got 'eaten' by the car....(the pic didn't look too bad).

I saw a clip where a fast car on track (not sure how fast, but 100+mph for sure) smashed to a deer and it got disintegrated right away....like those horror movies effect from Hollywood. (yuk!)

 

This suddenly gets me wondering ... how often do police cars
hit deer?
.
_H*

 

There's always a possibility because deers know no cops.

However; my guess of the police cars hitting deers maybe slim because cops usually have driver-training (better reaction/skills) and police cars can really drive SLOWLY in the high risk (for deers) area without intimidated by other drivers in rush.

Who dare to pass (or blast) on a slowly driven police car anyway?

 

I like deer. Especially if you let it marinade 48 hours before cooking.

Yum!

The worst I have seen was a pulp truck that nailed a moose. Driver was lucky he wasn't killed. The Detroit Diesel actually broke off the mounts, went back around a foot.

Most of the moose went through the engine, parts of the moose then got wrapped up in the drives. Yuck!

 

Deer often come out of the dark at full tilt. No way to see them and react in the flash of an instant you see them about to intersect with your vehicle.

I hit a deer at night on the open highway. I was doing about 65. I saw it just as flashed across the front of the truck. No time to react. Fortunately it was the truck, and all that was required to fix it was to replace the bumper.

Still, it was a bummer all the way around. Sucks every time.

Truck 1. Deer 0.01