Wife Hit Deer

[jimmysisson]

Coming around this long curve, doing the speed limit, I'm enjoying the ride and as I enter the curve, I failed to see the buck and doe on the left side of the highway until they came running full bore out of the ditch.

They might have been out of sight before they panicked when they heard the (?) Harleys and started running.
Thanks for a good story, though!
Jim

 

[Mace Canute]

Years ago I had just recently bought a brand new 78 Camaro Z28, nice car, eh? I was heading out of town one moonless Sunday night to my work site where I would stay for the week and I was driving through a bit of a snow storm when I hit a deer. The ditches were deep and steep and had a lot of willows growing in them. The deer literally leaped up out of the ditch and landed in front of me. I doubt if he was 50 feet in front of me when he came into view. There was no way I could avoid him and I had hammered on the brakes but being cold asphalt, I didn't slow down much and nailed him. Caused considerable damage too but at least it wasn't enough to prevent me from driving the rest of the way to work.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Side story...

I was raised outside of Yellowstone. every spring the second the roads opened we would head to yellowstone. Sometimes you end up in snow canyons, areas were you are on nice blacktop but the snow is 10 ft high on either side.

Come around a corner and there is a small heard of buffalo using the road as a get around. The lead bull was quite young (I do not think it was the dominate bull) but it got all jumpy and twitchy and started after the car, a little yellow subaru. I remember my sister crying, my mom hollering, and that oh Sh@t look on my dads face as he frantically tried to back down the snow canyon. We lost a headlight, no more.

I think this is always a heck of a story until I talk to my friends in far off lands who tell stories of elephants and rhinos (A giraffe can do some serious damage).

Carl

 

[masscity]

My cousin and his son had a logging truck with a trailer that loaded weighed in at 168k.

It was new and they hit a few deer and broke headlights and grill. They had a deer guard installed.

Good thing too, because in 2 1/2 years they hit 51 deer with it.

 

[Redneck in training]

We live in central Iowa. Every car and motorcycle we ever owned in past twenty or so years hit a deer.
I was working in Russia for about two years between 1978 and 1980. We were driving one night quite fast (I think over 100 mph) on open road when a dead horse showed up in the headlamps. There was no way we could stop so we hit it. The car was totaled and the engine compartment was full of horse hamburger.

 

[k0ua]

I have never hit one, but I have had many close calls around my house, one jumped over the hood right in front of the windshield one night. I brake when I see them and always look for the trailing "buddy" deer. But sooner or later I am liable to smack one. I see plenty of them lying on the roadside.


James K0UA

 

[firefighter9208]

Had a 6 point buck come through the parking lot at school yesterday when we were loading the busses. It jumped over one car and landed on the hood of a teacher's new Volkswagen Jetta. Caved in the hood and left fender. Proceeded across the parking lot and ran through one class of kindergarten students. The teacher managed to get them out of the way.

A couple hundred kids and parents/teachers witnessed this. All the kids already on the busses were going crazy. Probably did $2000.00 to $3000.00 damage to the teacher's car. I wonder what her insurance agent will say about that one .

I hit a doe in my 2010 Tahoe in December that cost nearly $1600.00 to repair. Hit another one in a 1999 F-250 a couple years ago that cost $3650.00 to repair.

Chris

 

[acme97]

I've bumped a few deer, but never really took one out or did any damage. Now on the other hand! I did hit and kill a wild pig with my brand new, 3 day old 2005 Nissan Titan Crew Cab! Was coming back from a friends house just after dark when suddenly out of nowhere a black streak comes from the driver side out of a steep ditch and right in front of me. The hog was killed right away, and slide under the truck where it was dragged for about 50ft. Nothing left of it, but the $2000 dollars in damage.

 

[JJZ 109]

Lots of deer hit stories. My wife now (girlfriend at the time) hit a moose in an area of New York where they are very seldom seen. Moose - 1, Hyundai Santa Fe - 1. Neither made it through the accident. :laughing:

Sept. 2007

 

[hawkeye08]

One of my wife's friends was coming out to the house one afternoon and a deer ran into her, right about the front edge of driver door. When she told the insurance agent what happened, he was sure that she had hit the deer, not the deer hitting her. She took a picture of the broken antler sticking out from the side of the minivan. He believed her then and the insurance covered much more than if she had hit the deer.