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MikeG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:31 PM
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I ran into a deer last week with my car. On a frigging HIGHWAY.
Caused $900.00 damage to my car.

It ran right out in front before I could react.

I was going 45 mph.

The deer died. I was OK.

Has this happened to anyone else?
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:32 PM
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1. It happened to friends of mine...
...who live in the back of the beyond. I am told it is quite a regular occurrence.

Happy that you are all right.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:34 PM
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2. My son hit one recently. He lived and so did the deer. Damn things are all
over the place in Michigan. Big mess when the trucks hit them.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:35 PM
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3. You need to get deer whistles.
They are unobtrusive little gadgets that mount on the front of your car. As you drive, the air blowing through them whistles (inaudible to humans) and scares deer away from the roadway.

I wouldn't drive, through the roads on which I have to commute, without them.

You can get them at Walmart, Autozone, or your local hunting goods store. Well worth the $10 they cost.

Before I mounted the whistles, I had a few scary near-misses. Since mounting the whistles, no near misses--no deer near the road at all.
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Bronco69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:36 PM
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4. Yep,
I've hit three of them. Both times when I lived in Ohio. I drove a Fiero in the mid 80's and a huge buck tried to jump over my car when I was driving down the highway. The deer's hoof kicked the side of my car and he landed on top and rolled down the front of the car. I shudder to think what would have happened if the windshield broke and he came through. The second time I was driving down a state highway and two deer were running together and they both ran into the side of my car.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:37 PM
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5. It's deer season in North Jersey also
Edited on Mon Sep-20-04 07:38 PM by rocknation
I've already driven past a couple of carcasses on Route 24 towards Parsippany. Late one night, I saw SIX of them along the road--thank goodness they didn't wander into the highway! Your insurance will cover your damage, I hope.

:headbang:
rocknation
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MikeG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:41 PM
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9. $250.00 deductible. And one week to repair.
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DelawareValleyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:45 PM
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11. Happend to my sister
not to far off Route 10 in Denville.
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:37 PM
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6. Four Times in My Driving Life
All but one resulted in deer fatalities. One rolled on top of my hood and busted the windshield - got my attention REAL quick!

They're thick as mosquitoes in my part of the country. During hunting season, they get skittish and squirrely, running across the road for what seems to be no good reason.
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olddem43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:38 PM
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7. This happens all the time around here -
even in the city (Cincinnati) there are about 30-60 accidents per year involving deer. In the surrounding area there are far more.
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:40 PM
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8. I hit a deer in the DOWNTOWN of a small town in Alabama. Was
taking the kid to a Cub Scout meeting. It scare the hell out of us, wrecked the right front of the car, and didn't seem to hurt the deer.
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blueknight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:45 PM
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12. i live in northern ky
and i have hit AT LEAST 10 in my life. the last one i hit was in april of this year. now is the time when they really start moving,so i have really been watching closely.
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IADEMO2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:45 PM
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10. Dad=3
Mom=1
Son=2
Sister=2
Niece=1
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:50 PM
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13. My best friends mom
Was going 60 m.p.h. on a wooded back-road. Deer died.
Her car looked like she drove straight into a brick wall.
$6,000 worth of damamge.

Sorry to hear about this incident. Glad you're o.k.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 07:59 PM
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14. I grew up in WV
Everybody knew someone who had hit a deer at some point or another. My brother has done it twice.

Frighteningly, my closest calls with deer have come in the DC Metro area. My closest call was at about 3 am on the ramp from I-66 West onto the Outer Loop of 495.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 08:03 PM
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15. Lucky your car wasn't totaled
Them suckers are solid!

I hit a deer once. Probably the only time I'd actually been diriving the speed limit on this little city street in Berkeley... and probably what saved the deer and me. Didn't need to buy deer whistles after that. Something got bent in the fender or hood and the car whistled forever after.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 08:10 PM
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16. Did you at least get to take home the meat and the rack?
:shrug:
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MikeG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-04 08:14 PM
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17. No. I was too shaken up. I heard it scream.
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gpandas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 09:48 AM
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23. it's being served now...
at the road kill cafe.
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Shananigans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 12:44 AM
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18. Heh...I live in Minnesota...if you HAVEN'T hit a deer here you are unusual
It's like a Minnesotan badge of honor or something. "Remember the first time I hit an old buck..that thing had antlers bigger than a moose" or "Remember that third doe I hit last season...poor thing bounced right off the windsheild"

I myself have only hit one, but that's unusual for northern Minnesota.

$1,700 in damage, though. Thank goodness for insurance!
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canuckforpeace Donating Member (170 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 01:51 AM
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19. Up here in the Great White North we have to watch for moose
as well as deer. If you hit one you've got a really good chance of getting hurt. Fortunately it rarely happens but I'm very careful, especially at night. I think it happens more at this time of year because they are in the rut and and are "squirrely" as another poster put it.

Glad you weren't hurt
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 02:49 AM
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20. You act surprised about it but it happens a lot.

Deer total a lot of cars and kill a lot of people, plus destroying gardens and landscaping. The problem is that there are too many deer today and no predators to thin them out. We need more deer hunting to get the populations back to a size that can exist on available forest and not be wandering through suburbs and across highways. Nobody wants Bambi to die, though, so it's hard to get people to see the problem for what it is.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 09:22 AM
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21. I deer ran into ME one time - jumped off the road bank and into the car -
It was a government (USDA) car and I was driving. The three passengers were dozing and everyone woke up and said "what was that?" I thought there was no damage to the car until an inspector asked me about a month later why I hadn't reported my "accident". He found a tiny dent by the keyhole on the door and a little tuft of deer hair caught under the trim ring around the hole. Go figure.
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 09:26 AM
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22. I hit one last year
Killed the deer, only a small scratch in my paint though. Lucky for me, not so much for the deer.
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mrboba1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 09:58 AM
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24. I was going 60 down Hwy 421
coming down from Boone, NC and a deer ran across the highway from my left - he/she swerved at the VERY LAST second (about 2 inches from the car) and ran away.

I went about 30 mph for the next 4 miles....
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-04 10:02 AM
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25. I Had An "Almost" Once
Hit a hoof. Deer got knocked off stride, but regained balance and ran away. Probably hurt, but i think he was ok.

When i got home in the garage, there was a clump of fur stock in the bezel around the headlight. Fortunately, for the deer, the hair can grow back. If he had been 1 second later, he would have been a hood ornament.
The Professor
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