Hit a Deer

ROLF... ok.

I have been on the expressway IN BROAD DAYLIGHT when a deer came running and hit the BACK SIDE PANEL, leaving a small dent. Never saw what hit us except by seeing it in the rear view mirror!!!

Another time I was driving home from work and on the exit ramp, SLOWING DOWN and I figure was about 45mph at the time. Suddenly I saw a blur to my right followed by an immediate hit. In that split second I saw the tell-tale color of deer - and that's the ONLY time I saw it, since after the car wrecked and I pulled to the side of the road, I couldn't find it. It was getting dark and my headlights would have had to face a way I could not turn them. Only later in the daytime did I ever see it laying there.

Apparently, the deer BOLTED from the woods and up a gully and leaped over the guardrail into the road, and honestly would have never been seen even in daylight due to the steepness of the gully.

And that's how people run into deer. Or rather, how deer run into THEM. Reckless runners!

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A guy I worked with once hit five at the same moment. Three were killed, two ran off.

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We have minimum coverage with deer insurance. Works out pretty well for us. In the last year DH has hit 3 deer and a bear. The bear wasn't covered but the deer were (we don't bother claiming anything if it's just a dent or two so the first 2 deer we didn't claim). DH's job means he goes to work and comes home from work during prime deer time and it really shows. Really hoping that the new (to us) truck is loud enough to keep most deer away from it. The silver taurus we had was a deer magnet.

I doubt any state is gonna pay for deer damages, even in the south where the deer are alot smaller.

We hit a coyote and our insurance covered it, but it did show up on our driving record, thus raising our rates when we switched companies a few years later.

Just a half grown teenaged coyote, but doing sveenty on the highway in a cavalier.... wow. New bumper (ripped it half off), new tire, rental car, I think a new rim IIRC.

I hit one last night, bringing my wife home from dropping off the other car for inspection. I haven't seen it in daylight, yet, but it needs a hood, headlight, and had antifreeze running out of it.

I've been shocked at the sheer difference in deer across the country. Texas, South Oklahoma? Huge deer. Like small elk, sometimes.

Here in MS, the does tend to be the size of a large dog, and very dainty things. Not the heavy boned things we have to watch for at home! The bucks here still barely rival the size of the does at home in TX.

[QUOTE=jen74145;5020781]I've been shocked at the sheer difference in deer across the country. Texas, South Oklahoma? Huge deer. Like small elk, sometimes.

Funny you should mention this, as my wife drove from S. Carolina to Ohio last week. I've had friends from out of state all mention how big Ohio deer were compared to where they're from. Guess I'm just used to them, but the further south we were, the smaller the deer, it seemed.

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I never knew deer had antifreeze! Sorry, couldn't resist.

LOL I remember the year they stood on the deck eating moms flowers then later in the day mom noticed the garage door open and closed it.
Its a bit of a understatement to say I was a bit surprised when I opened the garage door to be nose to nose with the moose standing inside.

[QUOTE=Now if you are talking about some non-combatant Provost Marshall sitting on his city but on base making edicts at some point or another thats different. Same idots hid on the FOBs in Iraq giving citations to Soldiers for having their reflective belts across the wrong shoulder or having dirty ACUs in the chow hall after coming in from a 12 hour patrol. Sounds like the same kind of buffoon to make those kind of blanket edicts to me.[/QUOTE]

It seems like it was either 1969 or 1972 but I'm not sure. As for combat experience. I'm not sure but Id bet it was likely he had it. Although I don't see what relevance it would have?

Its not the combat experience, its the need to create irrational and ill thought out blanket edicts because your too inexperienced or too lazy to look at each situation on its individual merits. Any Provost Marshall that decides any accident involving a Moose is automatically reckless driving is a moron and should be shipped somewhere they can devote their energies to something worthwhile.

As for the Moose in the yard, imagine this...my mother is in her mid 70s, uses a cain, is kind of built like a Weeble and swears like a logger...she has been known to chase a Moose down the road with her cain yelling all kinds of things much to the embarassment of my sister who lives in the same neighborhood!!!

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Here in NW MS the does are quite a bit larger than a large dog! You must be talking about some SE MS does!

Anyway, I'm from AL and my sister and her family still live there. They've all had run-ins with deer (usually it's the deer running into them). The State of Alabama has NEVER offered to pay them for auto damage and none of us have ever heard anything like that before. Their auto insurance pays for it.

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I did not realize that the deer problem was so widespread! In southeast Kansas there are so many deer that it is impossible to not hit one sooner or later. All but one of my deer "collisions" was the deer running into the side of my vehicle.
I always scan the both sides of the road looking for the shining eyes but they do have to be facing the light for them to reflect.
My favorite deer collision story was at night coming home from work down Hwy 160 with dense fog making visibility almost zero. I was driving very slowly keeping track of the white line on the edge of the road when something caught my attention out of the corner of my left eye. It was the face of a deer coming at me out of the fog and boom it hit. Then back to silence, car still running, lights still on and still can't see s*#t. I drive another 4 miles to town and when I turned I hear the sound of my tire scrapping something! Yepper, it tore up the fender and put a nice whole in the tire that didn't go flat til morning.
Nice to know that if times get really really bad we can all eat venison for awhile.

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LOL I take it you really enjoyed your time in the service?
Aren't you doing the same thing? Calling some Colonel a Moron without knowing the situation? Worse yet your assuming things that are not in evidence.
I gotta tell you I met a lot of colonels and not a one was a moron lots were a donkey's behind but you just don't get that far in the Army if your a moron.
Not everybody that disagrees with you is a moron ,some just have different values.