Almost hit a buck!

[tomf]

I was driving down my road and a buck jumped over a fence and landed right in front of my car, fast reactions kept me from hitting it.

[tomc]

South East Ohio nigh the West Virginia border deer, makes driving around like Pac Man.

[rainbowgardener]

Wow! Good job at avoiding it. My partner was driving on the freeway, at freeway speeds, when a whole herd of 7 of them jumped out in front of her. She managed to avoid all but the last one, but hit it. Nearly totalled her car, which was in the shop for a month after that.

[tomf]

This womn calls in to a radio station to say the deer crossing signs should be moved, so the deer will not cross the road at a busy place.

[shadylane]

She also stated that to a news paper and television, then called in the radio station. I could almost think she said that to have attention in a odd way...but then she had been hitting deer several times.. The lack of common sense??

[gardeningwithe]

Deer are a big problem here. This summer my husband hit one and had to have his car repaired, this fall I hit one and didn't have any damage, a week later my boss hit one and had to have his repaired. It was the craziest thing when I hit mine. I had almost stopped the car (there are often deer on my road as we are near a state park and they like to go into nearby fields and eat) because there were 7 of them. I know I'm fixing to sound crazy, but one just jumped up on my hood and slid across. I thought it was going to go through my windshield and had just enough time to picture myself getting mauled but then all of a sudden it just slid off. Thank goodness for morning dew on the car and a wet deer otherwise it could have been really bad. I joke that it was just a teenager showing off for his friends. Thankfully, he got up and went on his way. Poor things- you would think they would eventually learn though. So far the only time I have hit one, but since I run across them almost weekly fingers crossed it is the only time it happens! Glad you avoided it!

[tomf]

If you hit one and cut it in half you would have half a buck!

[valley]

Couple years ago, on the way to the airport to pick up the priest for a service, a doe jumped from behind a tree, like she had been waiting for us. I always thought I would be the one who could avoid a deer. Pieces of the grill were hitting the windscreen, I thought it was coming through but she went under and was hit be the truck behind us. No fun.

Richard