Killer Deer

[deerefan]

Just a friendly reminder to my friends here at TBN...please look a little beyond the headlights and little closer at the shoulders of roads...the deer are really active here now. We lost a school board member, a good man, to an accident where he struck a deer, causing him to lose control and flip his vehicle. He was ejected (no seat belt) and died at the scene. Sometimes these type of accidents are unavoidable, but please be careful and buckle up.

 

[SkyPup]

I was on the way to work this morning on my motorcycle going about 60 mph on a rural two lane road prior to the sunrise. As I was coming up on a long sweeping corner I saw something dark on the side of the roadway up ahead about 300 yards in the high beams, standing in grass. Hit the brakes and slowed to about 15mph to see a nice 4 point buck about two feet off the edge of the roadway. Knowing no to keep my retinas on his, I looked around as four more deer came bounding out of the woods across the road right in front of me as he too skeedaddled away.

Last week in a similar situation, a 2,000 pound bull was standing completely straddling the road before the sun came up.

I didn't hit them and I hope no one else did either......

But one of my greatest worries is someone in a car or truck swerving to miss a deer or cow and coming into my lane head-on at high speed.... so I try to keep an eye out for that too. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[BB_TX]

Here is some <font color="blue"> interesting reading </font> about auto/deer accidents. Estimated 1.5 million collisions and 150 human deaths per year.

 

[DrRod]

Skypup raises a good point -- the follow-on deer. When you see one cross the road, always assume there will be more following. So wait a moment before moving on.

 

[SkyPup]

When you see one, no matter where it is, there are more than the one which you see.

Beware of what you do not see, it's what you don't see that will get you. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[frank_f15]

will Really get bad here in western NY with the drastic change in weather last night, the bucks going in Rut and the opening of Deer seson on Saturday, they will be running all over the place.Best all should be careful

 

[Darren]

I know of at least two accidents in which a deer was hit by an oncoming vehicle and sent airborne through the windshield of an approaching vehicle resulting in fatalities in both cases.

I lucked out when a carload of teenagers sped past me on the interstate and hit a deer coming from the median. The drivers first action was to pull into my lane to get to the shoulder. My truck would have done a lot more damage than the deer if I hadn't hit the brakes before they did.

One three other occasions in one year I accounted for deer without firing a shot. While you won't see this in the newspapers with the finding of CWD in WV in an area not far from PA, MD and VA, I would avoid any contact with deer blood or parts following an accident unless your're wearing surgical gloves.

The deer that doesn't kill you when it takes out your vehicle may have a chance years later through exposure to prion contamination at the time of the accident.

 

[dmccarty]

We have lots of the four legged wood rats at my house. There is a herd of 5-7 that hang around the first 1/4 mile of road around our house. I see them at least once a day when I leave or come home. At least one or two more herds has I get to the main road. I ALWAYS watch for them. You see one and there are usually more waiting to cross the road.

One day I drove by and they did not leave the road. I could have rolled down the window and shot one or two of them from no farther away that 12 feet.

This morning the weather caused the windows to fog up. I got a phone call after I was at work from the wifey. Our dippy neighbor, everyone has to have at least one, pulled out of her driveway, they never look to the right since there are only five houses that way, and proceeded to hit another neighbors truck. The ding bat could not see, if she had looked since the window was fogged up. What are the odds that ding bat would pull out of the driveway when one of 11 cars that live past her would drive by? She managed it. She has a BMW so it should cost her a good bit of money to fix.

Deer and Ding Bats. Watch out its dangerous out there! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Later,
Dan

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Here is some <font color="blue"> interesting reading </font> about auto/deer accidents. Estimated 1.5 million collisions and 150 human deaths per year. )</font>=======
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The problem is thre are way way way to many deer.

Do deer whistles work?

 

[LBrown59]

A young girl we know hit a deer one dark night several years ago.
The car rolled over and down an enbankment where it was very hard to see from the road.
Don't know how long she was trapped in the car before some body finally spotted it.
They found her hanging upside down in her seat belt.

Severed her spinal cord so she's confined to a wheel chair.
She must have been about 21 at the time and is now in her mid to late twenties.