EVER HIT A DEER? What was it like..
@revellanotvanella (4033)
United States
April 5, 2008 10:55am CST
I never hit a deer until just last summer and it really shook me up because I must of drug this deer for at least 100 feet after hitting and the clunking of its body under the car was startling, not excluding my two children (1 and 3 years old) in the back who amazingly, didn't wake up even while I was screaming. There was only one light and it was right in the middle of the road where you make U-turns with cars still coming at 50 miles and hour.
Their was humor afterwords because after waiting like 35 minutes for the cop to GET THERE after my friend had already came to pick me up, the cop re-adjusts his hat and says, 'yea, I was right up the street, there alseep'. wow, it was like something out of a Chevy Chase movie. And then after exchanging information and getting a tow truck this cop stops us and is like "You gonna take that there" pointing at the deer, luckily my friend was polite and was like "nah" and I swear I saw the cop pull up on his pants and he starts telling us what a nice peice of meat it'll make--all too surreal because I haven't been to the country for awhile and all i could think is, 'Are you for real??'
I was still shaken up.
Me and my friend still crack up over it.
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@visitorinvasion (7709)
• United States
5 Apr 08
About 15 years ago, some friends and I went out of town on Halloween. Ft. Wayne was slammed. Standing room only everywhere we tried to go. We left and traveled to a smaller town near Lake Webster, where we used to be regulars. We had one drink each, hung out for a few, then headed back home.
Keep in mind these were the wild years.
That was the first time I had ever been sober doing the speed limit on that particular highway. We drove nearly an hour uneventfully. My roommate was asleep in the passenger side and the two guys had their heads nearly crammed between the headrests watching me drive. We were in farm country and currently passing between two very brown corn fields. An 8-point buck jumped out of the cornfield on the right, about 100 feet from the front end of my monte. I slammed brakes and hit the deer doing about 35 mph. The deer then jumped across the street into the brown corn field on the left. We didn't even get to eat it!
My roommate woke up and began immediately blaming me, as usual. Travis and Jimmy said to lay off me, there was nothing else I could have done. Thank God Travis' dad had a body shop in their garage. Travis and Jimmy took the monte and pulled the front end back out before my roommate's mom could see it (I was buying the monte off her on payments). My back has never been the same since either.
We were on deserted highway at the time, so we didn't wait for any cops since there was no deer to tag.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
5 Apr 08
About how much damage do you think was done? I didn't think you had to call the cops unless it was at least $500 in damage, probably not hard to do these days.
My bf is a delivery driver and he's always seeing deer and the other day he told me a deer ran through the parking lot of a WAWA (convenience store, gas station)! Then after that while coming down 95 by the Philly Airpot he saw a Deer jump out onto the highway and luckily didnt hit it but it did end up turning around and jumping back off 95 (I think theres some kind of reserve there ironic as that sounds). It would of never made it all the way across, the speed limit is 55 but people drive like 70 there.
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@visitorinvasion (7709)
• United States
5 Apr 08
I don't have any idea what it would have cost to have it fixed if I had had to pay for it. Whatever I paid for the bra to cover what damage was left on the grill is all the cost that was incurred.
I thought you didn't have to call the cops unless you damaged someone else's property (like a fence or something that might be along the roadside), wanted to keep the deer (so one would need a cop or a C.O. to tag the deer), or if you were going to claim it on insurance. The speed limit was 55 on that road back then, probably still is.
Ironic that nothing ever happened the dozens of times I drove it drunk at 85 mph trying to get us back to Marion before I passed out.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
7 Apr 08
Let me tell you, before hitting that deer I didn't know about any except Bambi and now when Im driving down a road next to woods in the dark Im SO paranoid!
I think your right, it probably is only if you've hit someone else. I didn't know about the tagging thing at all until you mentioned it, but I still think that cop stuffed that deer in his trunk LOL
@megumiart (3771)
• United States
6 Apr 08
I've never hit a deer, nor know anyone who has. It would freak me out. xD
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
8 Apr 08
Well thanks anyways, I never thought I would even after hearing the stories, my uncle always told me stories about dring the interstates in Connecticut, apparently there was an overabundance of deer, not sure if they took care of that problem or not.
@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
5 Apr 08
Yes, I did hit a deer about two years ago.But the deer ran back inot the woods after I hit him. It did cost $4800 to fix my car. They really can do alot of damage. It is a vey scary thing. He was just standing in the middle of the road looking at me. I could not help but hit him..
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
7 Apr 08
yea, thats what the deer did to me, I didnt really slow down initially because my first thought was that it was going to run but I panicked when it just stood there, I almost went off the road because I just threw my steering wheel whatever direction but the deer was actually what stopped me.
@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
5 Apr 08
Luckily I have never hit a deer. I did see about 20 deer standing in the road once though and we also come upon a bull standing in the middle of a gravel road once that was scary deciding whether to drive by him or not we didn't know if he would charge the car. We made it by though.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
7 Apr 08
You must live in a very interesting place if there is 20 deer standing in the road and even a bull, I am as baffled as you are because I would not know what to do at all. That sounds neat being able to see 20 deer standing together I didn't think deer were like that but kept to themselves.
