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I am very careful driving home at night. I have avoided several accidents with deer in the past, but this one literally jumped on my car. Scared the you know what out of me. I really don't hate them, I am just upset that my car is trashed. I just got it put in my name 2 months ago.
I am glad you are ok. You should have heard the conversation I had with the officer who came to my "deer incident." I called in that I was hit by a deer, actually a couple. When the officer arrived, he said, "So you hit a deer." I told him, "No they hit me." He said, "Sure they did." I told him, "Well, I sure wasn't drivin' sideways now was I." They were jumping a ditch the same time I passed I didn't even see them until it was over. I was hit in the passenger side and they nearly climbed the car. My son was in the passenger seat and it scared the dickens out of him. We were so glad they didn't break through the window and hurt him. R
If nothing else it is a very scary experience. Raven I'm glad both you and the C man were okay as well. I know it happens every day to someone out there.
Been there, done that. I nicked a young deer driving home from a university course many years ago. Scared the crap out of me. No damage to the car just a mud smear on the back quarter panel and the deer ran off.
I've seen several deer/motor vehicle collisions. Sometimes the deer is in one piece, sometimes not. Ick!
I've had a rotten experience with one of those four footed bandits.
I was 6. My family and I had camped out on Cayo Costa island and were enjoying a nice picnic lunch. I was just finishing with what was probably the very best cookie in the world when it happened. One of those evil creatures snuck up behind me and STOLE MY COOKIE!!!
It was horrible. I was heartbroken. The cookie given me in replacement just was nowhere near as good as the one that menace stole.
Now that I'm bigger and moved back into the area, I've seriously considered going out there again for some payback .
.. chicken fried with mashed potatos and gravy made from the drippins!
When I was up in the Nebraska panhandle, I got pretty good at slamming on my brakes, flipping my headlites off and honking my horn with lightning speed.
Although it sounds like you didn't have time for such evasive manuveurs, once you get rid of the headlights the deer will be able to see again, and the horn will tell him which direction you are coming from.
If there are alot of deer in your neck of the woods, you might look into getting those little whistlers that you mount to your bumper that wistle a high pitch sound that the deer can hear. They hear it before your headlights blind them and they get away from the road. I have never used them so I tell you how well they actually work, but they were on all the state trooper cars up there.
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