Ever Hit a Deer?

Seriously, if you're suddenly faced with hitting a deer....hit the deer. The swerve to avoid it will either send you careening into a tree or another car. Terrible for the deer, and your car will be destroyed, but it will probably save your life.

 

What 21 said. You have to fight your instincts to swerve.

I throttled a buck about five years ago (thankfully it was in my old clunker). Had I swerved to the left, it would have been right into the path of another car. To the right, down a hill and into some trees.

 

That does depend on road and traffic conditions. In my two cases, the first was on a four-lane highway. I swerved. The second was on a two-lane country road. I hit the breaks, but maintined my lane. There was no oncoming car, but that lane wouldn't have helped me anyway.

 

Ran OVER one.

Knew the stretch of road was an epic deer playground, so was going
verrrrrry slowly.

Deer assumed the deer fetal position after I tapped it. Ran COMPLETELY over it . . .
and saw it get up on all four in the rearview, as I pulled away.

One in a million.

 

Hit and killed one, driving home late at night from work a few years back. Wrecked the car.

Had another one run into the road, bang into my driver's side, then bounce off. As I looked through the rear-view mirror, he stood up and started running away.

 

No but I once killed a dog that was running across the Merritt Pkwy to join a pack of dogs feeding on a deer carcass.

 

I was driving on a dark, empty county highway months after taking my first post-college job. Going about 50 up a hill, I suddenly saw a deer standing in the middle of the road. at the top of the hill. I barely had time to move out of the way, as the sumbitch never moved. Surely it moved after my sideview mirror broke off when it hit the deer's head.

Bastard

 

That's the best complement I've ever received on here. But my comic-genius buddy, Westy, probably wouldn't agree to go slumming with me!

 

Saw a gigantic turtle on a mountain road last weekend. Biggest fucking turtle I've ever seen. I moved out of his way but was worried for him.

 

I've hit deer twice.
The first time I was driving my month-old Trans Am on an Interstate in Virginia. I see the deer leaping...right into my left front fender. The impact tore the fiberglass up and knocked my car into a bit of a spin. The windshield cracked and my Pontiac screeched off the road onto the shoulder sideways.
There was blood everywhere. Apparently the fender cut open his jugular.

A state trooper shows up and I'm still in a state of shock, my hands still gripping the wheel. He asks me if I need to check my shorts and I was in such a state of shock the joke totally flew over my head. The beauty of GRP is that I got a bolt cutter, sliced away the offending fender and drove away. When I saw the car the next day when I took it to the body shop, blood was all down the passenger's side of it. Gross.

The second was in Georgia. The deer froze when I came around a corner and I slammed on brakes. I tapped him and knocked him over with no damage to either deer or Nissan. I yelled at him and he got up and ran away.

I hate deer.

 

I had one cross the highway right in front of me this morning. In bright daylight. It was good for him that his timing was just right, as there was no way I could've stopped in time.

 

Hit 'em, been hit by them, broadsided in one case. I, too, hate deer but enjoy eating them.