I was driving back from Jackson Hole to Park City two days ago going about 85 mph when I hit a deer. I had seen a bunch during the day on the side of the road and had been joking that we were going to hit one for sure. Sure enough, once it got dark one came out of no where and a split second later i was slamming on my breaks and plowed through the deer. I probably skidded over a 100 yards past where i hit it. The whole right side of the car (chevy traverse) was destroyed, including the light. There was deer hair and blood all over. Pretty nutty experience. That was the first time I hit anything bigger than a squirrel. All in all it resulted in about 6 grand of damages, but insurance covered it all after a 100 dollar deductible. Lucky no one got hurt. Supposedly, you are supposed to accelerate when you see an animal in front of you rather than trying to swerve out of the way or brake. Great skiing atleast.
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I was driving back from Jackson Hole to Park City two days ago going about 85 mph when I hit a deer. I had seen a bunch during the day on the side of the road and had been joking that we were going to hit one for sure. Sure enough, once it got dark one came out of no where and a split second later i was slamming on my breaks and plowed through the deer. I probably skidded over a 100 yards past where i hit it. The whole right side of the car (chevy traverse) was destroyed, including the light. There was deer hair and blood all over. Pretty nutty experience. That was the first time I hit anything bigger than a squirrel. All in all it resulted in about 6 grand of damages, but insurance covered it all after a 100 dollar deductible. Lucky no one got hurt. Supposedly, you are supposed to accelerate when you see an animal in front of you rather than trying to swerve out of the way or brake. Great skiing atleast.
I grew up in Salt Lake City, and speaking of Park City, one of my friends was driving from PC down to the valley in parleys canyon and he hit a moose that was just standing in the middle of the road. The moose went right through his windshield and now he is paralyzed.. Quite sad. He played linebacker at UNLV and now in a wheelchair for the rest of his life..
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I grew up in Salt Lake City, and speaking of Park City, one of my friends was driving from PC down to the valley in parleys canyon and he hit a moose that was just standing in the middle of the road. The moose went right through his windshield and now he is paralyzed.. Quite sad. He played linebacker at UNLV and now in a wheelchair for the rest of his life..
you shouldn't try and avoid it is the main thing from what I've gathered. If you are going fast enough you just plow through it i guess. A lot of people naturally try and avoid it and swerve out of the way which can result in flipping the car or hitting a tree i guess.
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you shouldn't try and avoid it is the main thing from what I've gathered. If you are going fast enough you just plow through it i guess. A lot of people naturally try and avoid it and swerve out of the way which can result in flipping the car or hitting a tree i guess.
I was on my way to the Pittsburgh zoo with my wife in my Cavalier (I no longer have it) when a deer ran out in the road. He was looking at us so he didn't see the dump truck coming the other way. The truck hit him in the rump and the deer flew into my lane after he got hit. My initial reaction was to not try to avoid him. So I simply ran him over. I knew I couldn't swerve. One direction is a ditch, the other on coming traffic. So I ran over him. The damage was negligible and hopefully I put him out of his misery. Of course my wife started crying... But we made it to the zoo in one piece.
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I was on my way to the Pittsburgh zoo with my wife in my Cavalier (I no longer have it) when a deer ran out in the road. He was looking at us so he didn't see the dump truck coming the other way. The truck hit him in the rump and the deer flew into my lane after he got hit. My initial reaction was to not try to avoid him. So I simply ran him over. I knew I couldn't swerve. One direction is a ditch, the other on coming traffic. So I ran over him. The damage was negligible and hopefully I put him out of his misery. Of course my wife started crying... But we made it to the zoo in one piece.
I grew up in Salt Lake City, and speaking of Park City, one of my friends was driving from PC down to the valley in parleys canyon and he hit a moose that was just standing in the middle of the road. The moose went right through his windshield and now he is paralyzed.. Quite sad. He played linebacker at UNLV and now in a wheelchair for the rest of his life..
I can't believe they let a Moose play LB at UNLV. No wonder their football program is horrible.
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Quote Originally Posted by joepa510:
I grew up in Salt Lake City, and speaking of Park City, one of my friends was driving from PC down to the valley in parleys canyon and he hit a moose that was just standing in the middle of the road. The moose went right through his windshield and now he is paralyzed.. Quite sad. He played linebacker at UNLV and now in a wheelchair for the rest of his life..
I can't believe they let a Moose play LB at UNLV. No wonder their football program is horrible.
you shouldn't try and avoid it is the main thing from what I've gathered. If you are going fast enough you just plow through it i guess. A lot of people naturally try and avoid it and swerve out of the way which can result in flipping the car or hitting a tree i guess.
In 2006 I was going about 50 on Rt 109 (2 lane rd with woods on each side) on the Me/NH border at night. 2 deer bolted across the road and my reaction was to slam on the brakes and try to avoid hitting them. Problem is I hit a tree.
Messier is correct when he says just hit them head on. Just make sure you duck.
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Quote Originally Posted by Messier-11:
you shouldn't try and avoid it is the main thing from what I've gathered. If you are going fast enough you just plow through it i guess. A lot of people naturally try and avoid it and swerve out of the way which can result in flipping the car or hitting a tree i guess.
In 2006 I was going about 50 on Rt 109 (2 lane rd with woods on each side) on the Me/NH border at night. 2 deer bolted across the road and my reaction was to slam on the brakes and try to avoid hitting them. Problem is I hit a tree.
Messier is correct when he says just hit them head on. Just make sure you duck.
soon after she got her license, my daughter called me one day to come and fix a flat tire for her...she was only about 10 minutes away from my house then in Tampa.....when I arrived, it was an area with lakes or large ponds on each side of the road...I asked how she thinks the tire went flat, did you run over something? She informed me then she hit an alligator that was crossing the road....I asked her , honey how did you not see an alligator, don't tell me you were on your phone.....she informed me, Dad I saw it, but I thought it was a log.....
who the hell runs over logs?? and yes, she is blonde
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soon after she got her license, my daughter called me one day to come and fix a flat tire for her...she was only about 10 minutes away from my house then in Tampa.....when I arrived, it was an area with lakes or large ponds on each side of the road...I asked how she thinks the tire went flat, did you run over something? She informed me then she hit an alligator that was crossing the road....I asked her , honey how did you not see an alligator, don't tell me you were on your phone.....she informed me, Dad I saw it, but I thought it was a log.....
who the hell runs over logs?? and yes, she is blonde
one hit me broadside when i was running about 60mph. Dented in the rear door, but didn't even break the glass. Saw her spiinning like a top with all 4 legs in the air in my rearview mirror. It was a junker car so no big deal. I would wager that she lived fwiw.
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one hit me broadside when i was running about 60mph. Dented in the rear door, but didn't even break the glass. Saw her spiinning like a top with all 4 legs in the air in my rearview mirror. It was a junker car so no big deal. I would wager that she lived fwiw.
Hit one in a company van about 20 years ago............it came off the wooded hillside next to the road. I never saw it until I hit it.
About 10 years ago I was driving from Seattle to Missoula...........when I got into Montana the road flattened out so I thought I'd see just how fast my 95 Maxima could go. I got up to around 125mph when I saw a deer x-ing sign...........backed it off to 70
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Hit one in a company van about 20 years ago............it came off the wooded hillside next to the road. I never saw it until I hit it.
About 10 years ago I was driving from Seattle to Missoula...........when I got into Montana the road flattened out so I thought I'd see just how fast my 95 Maxima could go. I got up to around 125mph when I saw a deer x-ing sign...........backed it off to 70
I was on a main road going about 50 MPH. I probably wasn't paying too much attention and it was harder to see because it was at night and my windows are tinted. Hit one tight smack in the middle of the front bumper. It's momentum kept it running for about 10 feet until it hit the curb and collapsed. I have a picture on an old phone of it's last living moments.
My honda civic had a bent hood, broken grill, broken headlight, bent radiator, the impact was so hard the glass on my side mirror fell off.
I managed to make it look decent for not too much. I got an aftermarket hood off CL for 200, a grill off ebay for 30, one headlight for about 50, and the mirror glass for like 10. The radiator still worked luckily, so I didn't need to replace that.
Second time (3 months later) I was going 35 on a resi road and I thought I saw like a cat run across the street, so I slow down. Apparently it was a baby deer, cuz the mother came chasing after it and plowed into my fender and passenger side door. This deer still lived though, and bounced off like Jerome Bettis and scampered into the woods.
This time it broke my side mirror completely off. I had a face imprint on my fender, and a huge dent in my door. To make matters worse, When I was trying to pop out the dent with a crowbar, I ended up shattering my doorglass somehow.
The glass was $120, Mirror like $100, $20 for some kind of moulding, and I paid some mobile body man on Craigslist $300 to do the body work. Fender came out pretty good, but the door still looks crappy. Not as bad as before though.
And people always wonder why I start hyperventilating when I see ANY deer these days.
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I hit 2 deer, both within 3 months of each other.
I was on a main road going about 50 MPH. I probably wasn't paying too much attention and it was harder to see because it was at night and my windows are tinted. Hit one tight smack in the middle of the front bumper. It's momentum kept it running for about 10 feet until it hit the curb and collapsed. I have a picture on an old phone of it's last living moments.
My honda civic had a bent hood, broken grill, broken headlight, bent radiator, the impact was so hard the glass on my side mirror fell off.
I managed to make it look decent for not too much. I got an aftermarket hood off CL for 200, a grill off ebay for 30, one headlight for about 50, and the mirror glass for like 10. The radiator still worked luckily, so I didn't need to replace that.
Second time (3 months later) I was going 35 on a resi road and I thought I saw like a cat run across the street, so I slow down. Apparently it was a baby deer, cuz the mother came chasing after it and plowed into my fender and passenger side door. This deer still lived though, and bounced off like Jerome Bettis and scampered into the woods.
This time it broke my side mirror completely off. I had a face imprint on my fender, and a huge dent in my door. To make matters worse, When I was trying to pop out the dent with a crowbar, I ended up shattering my doorglass somehow.
The glass was $120, Mirror like $100, $20 for some kind of moulding, and I paid some mobile body man on Craigslist $300 to do the body work. Fender came out pretty good, but the door still looks crappy. Not as bad as before though.
And people always wonder why I start hyperventilating when I see ANY deer these days.
Driving at night down a heavily wooded country road in South Carolina. Was like a video game trying to avoid those stupid deer morons. They just leap out of nowhere right in front of your car.
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Driving at night down a heavily wooded country road in South Carolina. Was like a video game trying to avoid those stupid deer morons. They just leap out of nowhere right in front of your car.
I was riding with my friend in his truck on a country road and he hit a buck.He was driving an F-350 with a huge grill guard so his truck was pretty much fine, but the same could not be said for the deer.
It looked like half his body was broken and his guts were spilling out onto the road.He put a .357 magnum round through the deer's head to put him out of his misery.
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I was riding with my friend in his truck on a country road and he hit a buck.He was driving an F-350 with a huge grill guard so his truck was pretty much fine, but the same could not be said for the deer.
It looked like half his body was broken and his guts were spilling out onto the road.He put a .357 magnum round through the deer's head to put him out of his misery.
Driving at night down a heavily wooded country road in South Carolina. Was like a video game trying to avoid those stupid deer morons. They just leap out of nowhere right in front of your car.
As dangerous as it can get driving with all these deer running around just think how bad things would be if those anti-hunting nuts got their way and deer hunting was outlawed.
Car fatalities would probably end up at least doubling.
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Quote Originally Posted by searchwarrant:
Driving at night down a heavily wooded country road in South Carolina. Was like a video game trying to avoid those stupid deer morons. They just leap out of nowhere right in front of your car.
As dangerous as it can get driving with all these deer running around just think how bad things would be if those anti-hunting nuts got their way and deer hunting was outlawed.
Car fatalities would probably end up at least doubling.
As dangerous as it can get driving with all these deer running around just think how bad things would be if those anti-hunting nuts got their way and deer hunting was outlawed.
Car fatalities would probably end up at least doubling.
Not to mention the outbreak of viruses, bacteria, overgrazing that would devastate everything in it's path.
Shoot as many as your permit allows.
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Quote Originally Posted by StraightShooter:
As dangerous as it can get driving with all these deer running around just think how bad things would be if those anti-hunting nuts got their way and deer hunting was outlawed.
Car fatalities would probably end up at least doubling.
Not to mention the outbreak of viruses, bacteria, overgrazing that would devastate everything in it's path.
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