Wife Hit Deer

[BobRip]

My wife brushed a deer with her van. She heard a little thump. When she got home we inspected it and there was a little tuff of dear fur between the license plate and the holder. No other damage. She insisted that we go back and see if the deer was ok. We never saw it of course. She is more concerned about the deer than herself or the car,

 

[phiferpharm]

We see dead deer almost weekly out on the main road to town. My son hit one with his big rig and it destroyed the whole hood area on his Freightliner about two months ago. It seems like it is not the one you see, but one of it's mates that come bounding out while your looking at the original deer.

I had a bear just about clean my clock a few weeks ago. That would have been a mess.

 

[dmccarty]

Three years ago the wifey got a nice eight pointer. Unfortunately it was with her Honda and not a rifle.

She was ALMOST home, not even a 1/4 mile to our road, when the buck ran out of the woods into a car going east. The buck hit the side of the other car spun around 360 degrees and kept going across the road. The wifey hit the brakes and laid a great skid on the road. The deer fell in front of the Honda. Not a dent or ding to the exterior of the car. She ran right over the buck.

I get to the accident and the buck is still alive but then finally dies. SHP gets there pretty quick but the officer thinks there is no damage to the car. I had already walked back from where the car stopped to the point of impact. You could see where the deer was hit from broken plastic pieces, the spot where the tire no longer left a skid when it ran over the deer, :laughing:, and the drip, drip, drip of anti freeze.

The Buck's antlers had gone UP into the engine compartment and punctured the radiator.

$900 to fix.

A month after getting the Honda back, a dufus did not yield at a traffic light and hit us which totaled the car.

Later,
Dan

 

[mguitas]

Never have hit a deer. But had one hit me. Mine was the only vehicle on the road at the time, I was traveling about 45 mph when a deer came running out of the woods and hit the side of my PU truck. It spun around and went back into the woods. Don't know if the deer was injured or not. My truck has a severly dented rear door side panel.

I never hit a deere either, but like you i was driving down the club road an one doe ran out of the fence line wright along the side of my truck, the deere turn an ran with my truck. Then it was just a matter of slowing the truck down, so she could cross.

 

[grsthegreat]

I never hit a deere either, but like you i was driving down the club road an one doe ran out of the fence line wright along the side of my truck, the deere turn an ran with my truck. Then it was just a matter of slowing the truck down, so she could cross.

like i keep telling my hunting friends (or fiends)... get rid of the buck lure and doe scent, etc....just get a portable car horn and a set of battery powered head lights....

 

[Whitnel]

I popped one with the front bumper of the F-250 last week. Luckly, No damage to the truck that i can tell. I had slowed down when I saw his bubby cross in front of him. It smacked him pretty good, maybe broke a leg but he hobbled off. I have always wanted a reason to get a BUCK STOP bumper. Maybe not I can justify it.

 

[Mounted Madness]

For years I wondered how anyone with a good set of eyes and attentive driving could hit a deer. Broad daylight, myself and a buddy, on our bikes heading from Sturgis to Devils Tower and lazy curves in 60 zone. A beautiful day.

Coming around this long curve, doing the speed limit, I'm enjoying the ride and as I enter the curve, I failed to see the buck and doe on the left side of the highway until they came running full bore out of the ditch.

They were about 40 feet ahead of me when they came up onto the roadway. The buck was in the lead, and it happened so fast I could only react. I literally drove between the 2 deer. I swear I could here his hoofs on the road, though it might have been my heart beating.

No adrenaline rush, nothing. It happened so fast, there was no time for my system to respond. No panic thankfully. Continued on for another mile or so, pulled over and did the usual holy %$#@ commentary with my buddy.

Ever since, my commentary about how can anyone hit a deer has been VERY subdued. A lucky day.

 

[coobie]

Wife was driving home from school last night @ around 6:00 P.M.when all of a sudden there was a deer at her drivers door. Deer hit door and spun around and hit driver side front fender, at this point deer became airborne and was launched into other lane.Now deer was hit by another car and was thrown into air where yet another car hit it too. Her 2010 Honda Accord EXL needs a new door and drivers front fender, probably $3000.00 in damages boy is she sick. The good thing is deer was low and didn't come through drivers window.
DevilDog

One thing to remember a car/truck can be fixed or replaced someones life cannot.Glad to hear she is OK.coobie

 

[jimmysisson]

Coming around this long curve, doing the speed limit, I'm enjoying the ride and as I enter the curve, I failed to see the buck and doe on the left side of the highway until they came running full bore out of the ditch.

They might have been out of sight before they panicked when they heard the (?) Harleys and started running.
Thanks for a good story, though!
Jim

 

[Mace Canute]

Years ago I had just recently bought a brand new 78 Camaro Z28, nice car, eh? I was heading out of town one moonless Sunday night to my work site where I would stay for the week and I was driving through a bit of a snow storm when I hit a deer. The ditches were deep and steep and had a lot of willows growing in them. The deer literally leaped up out of the ditch and landed in front of me. I doubt if he was 50 feet in front of me when he came into view. There was no way I could avoid him and I had hammered on the brakes but being cold asphalt, I didn't slow down much and nailed him. Caused considerable damage too but at least it wasn't enough to prevent me from driving the rest of the way to work.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Side story...

I was raised outside of Yellowstone. every spring the second the roads opened we would head to yellowstone. Sometimes you end up in snow canyons, areas were you are on nice blacktop but the snow is 10 ft high on either side.

Come around a corner and there is a small heard of buffalo using the road as a get around. The lead bull was quite young (I do not think it was the dominate bull) but it got all jumpy and twitchy and started after the car, a little yellow subaru. I remember my sister crying, my mom hollering, and that oh Sh@t look on my dads face as he frantically tried to back down the snow canyon. We lost a headlight, no more.

I think this is always a heck of a story until I talk to my friends in far off lands who tell stories of elephants and rhinos (A giraffe can do some serious damage).

Carl

 

[masscity]

My cousin and his son had a logging truck with a trailer that loaded weighed in at 168k.

It was new and they hit a few deer and broke headlights and grill. They had a deer guard installed.

Good thing too, because in 2 1/2 years they hit 51 deer with it.

 

[Redneck in training]

We live in central Iowa. Every car and motorcycle we ever owned in past twenty or so years hit a deer.
I was working in Russia for about two years between 1978 and 1980. We were driving one night quite fast (I think over 100 mph) on open road when a dead horse showed up in the headlamps. There was no way we could stop so we hit it. The car was totaled and the engine compartment was full of horse hamburger.

 

[k0ua]

I have never hit one, but I have had many close calls around my house, one jumped over the hood right in front of the windshield one night. I brake when I see them and always look for the trailing "buddy" deer. But sooner or later I am liable to smack one. I see plenty of them lying on the roadside.


James K0UA

 

[firefighter9208]

Had a 6 point buck come through the parking lot at school yesterday when we were loading the busses. It jumped over one car and landed on the hood of a teacher's new Volkswagen Jetta. Caved in the hood and left fender. Proceeded across the parking lot and ran through one class of kindergarten students. The teacher managed to get them out of the way.

A couple hundred kids and parents/teachers witnessed this. All the kids already on the busses were going crazy. Probably did $2000.00 to $3000.00 damage to the teacher's car. I wonder what her insurance agent will say about that one .

I hit a doe in my 2010 Tahoe in December that cost nearly $1600.00 to repair. Hit another one in a 1999 F-250 a couple years ago that cost $3650.00 to repair.

Chris

 

[JJZ 109]

Lots of deer hit stories. My wife now (girlfriend at the time) hit a moose in an area of New York where they are very seldom seen. Moose - 1, Hyundai Santa Fe - 1. Neither made it through the accident. :laughing:

Sept. 2007

 

[hawkeye08]

One of my wife's friends was coming out to the house one afternoon and a deer ran into her, right about the front edge of driver door. When she told the insurance agent what happened, he was sure that she had hit the deer, not the deer hitting her. She took a picture of the broken antler sticking out from the side of the minivan. He believed her then and the insurance covered much more than if she had hit the deer.