Subj : Re: Deer stories (was: This Train Just Went Splat) To : alt.tv.er From : DawnK Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 01:07:59 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er "Cathy M" wrote in message news:1127709657.800372.38850@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > Dropping The Helicopter wrote: > >> >> The thing with deer-like animals is their long legs. What they showed >> on the show was pretty realistic. A car will generally hit the legs out >> from under the animal, and the rest of the body goes over the hood and >> into the windshield. So, the damage is more spread out, and of course >> the amount of damage varies wildly; My folks hit a deer and critically >> wounded it in a pickup with nearly no damage to the vehicle, while a >> friend of mine had a deer hit *him* in a smaller car and the car was >> essentially totaled. >> >> Often the animal will actually go through the windshield and injure >> and/or kill the driver and passenger. > > Couple of years ago, my sister-in-law was driving and a deer jumped at > her car from the left. She remembers the deer's head coming in her > driver's side window, then it fell away as the car kept moving. Car > wasn't totalled, but the deer was. She was picking tiny pebbles of > safety glass and deer hair out of her car through the middle of summer. > Hit two deer myself and one while passenger with DH. No broken windshields in 3 car-deer accidents, just badly damaged bumpers and hoods! Dawn .