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Subj : Deer stories (was: This Train Just Went Splat)
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Cathy M
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 22:40:57

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


Dropping The Helicopter wrote:
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> 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.

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