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minendo

minendo

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I was driving home from work and almost tagged a deer. Damn thing came out of nowhere and luckily I was able to slam on my brakes before taking the full impact. Approximately 30 feet of skid marks later the only damage my Durango sustained was some chipped paint.
 
Captante

Captante

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Wow you were really lucky ... I've had a couple friends total cars hitting deer & one who was badly hurt by a large buck that not only destroyed his car but came through the windshield & landed on his lap!

I actually slammed one at about 75mph maybe 16-17 years ago on the Taconic parkway in NY state, but I was driving my old full-sized Chevy van that I used for NYC courier work that had a HUGE solid steel grate welded over the front end, so the only damage I took was a broken radio antenna plus nasty blood-spatters all over my windshield.
 
Platypus

Platypus

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I have the worst deer/car story of all time but it's a little too graphic to post I imagine :p
 
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Mojoed

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Originally posted by: Platypus
I have the worst deer/car story of all time but it's a little too graphic to post I imagine :p
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I'm sure we've heard worse! Spill it!
 
Platypus

Platypus

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Don't say I didn't warn you....

Ok my friend had a honda civic SI (older hatch model from the 90s) and he was driving with his then girlfriend at night, all of the sudden a deer runs out of nowhere and he slams right into it going pretty fast. Not only did the deer go through the windshield and completely destroy his engine, it was also pregnant (pretty far along) and the two passengers got completley covered in the baby deer that exploded out of the mother on impact. The inside of the car was completely covered in blood, entrails, fur and slimey unborn but still very formed deer. He sustained minor injuries, mostly from the impact but his face got scraped up pretty bad.

The car was completely totaled and the pictures he showed me were fucked up to say the least.
 
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apac

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Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: Platypus
The car was completely totaled and the pictures he showed me were fucked up to say the least.
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M-m-m-monster kill!
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I shouldn't have laughed, but I did.
 
moshquerade

moshquerade

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Nov 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: minendo
I was driving home from work and almost tagged a deer. Damn thing came out of nowhere and luckily I was able to slam on my brakes before taking the full impact. Approximately 30 feet of skid marks later the only damage my Durango sustained was some chipped paint.
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a lot of times deer will travel together and if one crosses the road, even in traffic, the rest feel compelled to follow. i've had a couple of times where i've missed the first deer in the pack and two more come bounding out after only for me to clip one of them.

they say you aren't supposed to brake for animals and put yourself in more danger by doing so, but it's such a reflex that braking is automatic in some instances.

at least it wasn't a moose! we have those here periodically, and when you hit one of those it's really bad news.
 
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trmiv

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Oct 10, 1999
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I keep hoping that doesn't happen to me. Every day on my way to work there are at least 2 dead deer on the side of the freeway. Many times it looks like a scene from that old driving video "Blood on the Highway." Yuck. That would suck tagging a deer at 65.
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

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That one guy is lucky everyone wasn't killed....what stopped the deer from entering the cockpit along with all it's guts?
 
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MisterJackson

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My brother is a deer hunter and to say he sucks at it is putting it mildly.

The funny thing is he was responding to a call the other day (He's a county officer) and hit a deer at high speed. He had to call that in to dispatch himself. He said he hadn't heard the girls in dispatch laugh before then.

His new handle is Deer Hunter
 
Anubis

Anubis

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lol ive killed more deer with various cars then some of my friends who hunt have with guns

last time i hit one ( actually it hit me) was a few years ago, was driving on some road going like 60, and the stupid deer jumped out of the bushed directly into the side of my carm its head when through the rear passenger side window and it got stuck there, and i sorta draged it while stopping, its broke its neck and was dead hanging out my window, when the cop came he had a good laugh at it
 
theknight571

theknight571

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I've driven through wooded areas at dusk/night many times on my way to my parent's cottage, and never came close to hitting a deer.

I was driving on the surface streets through a populated area, next to a major highway, and hit a deer... never thought to even be looking for a deer in that area.

Fortunately I just clipped the front of it... it busted the driver's side headlight and housing, but it seemed ok... it ran off... I wasn't going that fast... 25-30 tops.
 
MikeyIs4Dcats

MikeyIs4Dcats

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we had a guy here who was killed in front of his whole family when a deer came through his windshield and basically decapitated him. their minivan crashed, and the mother and child survived.
 
Anubis

Anubis

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Originally posted by: theknight571
I've driven through wooded areas at dusk/night many times on my way to my parent's cottage, and never came close to hitting a deer.

I was driving on the surface streets through a populated area, next to a major highway, and hit a deer... never thought to even be looking for a deer in that area.

Fortunately I just clipped the front of it... it busted the driver's side headlight and housing, but it seemed ok... it ran off... I wasn't going that fast... 25-30 tops.
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lucky deer, my friend and I hit one few years ago going all of 15 at most and killed it
 
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Sukhoi

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I almost hit one going 75 MPH on I-90 in the middle of Wyoming this past summer. It was standing in the left lane looking at me as I went by in the right lane. :Q I slowed down a bit but still it's not like going 60 MPH was going to help a lot, and I needed to get somewhere.
 
AMCRambler

AMCRambler

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My neighbor nailed one on the Taconic State Parkway with an Olds Cutlass doing about 60. The front end on that car is pretty low, so he kneecapped the deer which fell over onto the hood and bounce off the hood into the air and went completely over the car. He had a busted headlight, a big dent in the hood where it looked like somebody and slammed a basketball into it extremely hard and that was it. I was like "Dude, you are buying my next lottery ticket, cuz you are one lucky bastage!"
 
waggy

waggy

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a few years ago we were driving up to madison Wi to see some friends.

i was starting to pass a semi with a grill gate. when a deer ran out and the semi hit it. parts of the deer flew everywhere. a good portion of it landed on my car.

it was rather gross.

the semi just kept going. there was no damage to it at all heh
 
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