Subj : Re: Deer stories
To   : alt.tv.er
From : DawnK
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 07:30:07

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


"Phyl" <pab23@nospamearthlink.neet> wrote in message 
news:Q_PZe.5183$q1.4270@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> DawnK wrote:
>
>> Hit two deer myself and one while passenger with DH.  No broken 
>> windshields in 3 car-deer accidents, just badly damaged bumpers and 
>> hoods!
>
>
> Fortunately, we haven'thit a deer - yet - despite years of living in 
> various places with huge deer populations.
>
> When we lived in Virginia, there was information on radio news regarding 
> HOW to handle a collision with a deer.
>
> The two most important things were:
>
> 1) don't swerve to avoid the deer, as it puts you and your car in danger 
> of hitting something bigger, like a tree, another car, or a truck.
>
> 2) avoid braking at the time of contact, even though it's a natural reflex 
> to do so. The action of sudden braking makes the hood of your vehicle dip, 
> increasing the chances that the deer will roll on top of your hood, 
> further endangering you by breaking glass, or worse - breaking glass, 
> having the half-dead, but half very alive deer WITHIN the passenger 
> compartment of your car. I recall a report of a woman (in Illinois?) being 
> killed by a deer that was thrashing about, terrified, in her car.
>
> Other deer tips that most people know are that deer travel in groups, so 
> if you see one, there may be more coming, and that they're very active and 
> mobile in autumn.
>
> Phyl

My deer came onto the road surface so fast, that I had no TIME to brake! 
LOL!  They were just, all of a sudden, there!

Dawn

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