View Full Version : A Deer Just Killed my Car
Rbick
March 24th, 2008, 12:24 PM
So I was driving home with my wife from a nice Easter dinner with the family. We had been shooting all day and making exploding targets before dinner, it was a wonderful time (My family is crazy :D). It had just gotten dark and we were discussing the schedual for tomorrow and things that needed to be done. I was going about 65 mph in a 55mph zone, as I usually go 10 over. Before I could blink, hit the breaks, swerve or even say "Oh Shit!", a deer sprinted in front of the car.
It was perfect timing and I hit the fucker dead on, mid gallop. There was the sound of crunching bones, shattering glass, and metal on pavement. Pieces of my Honda Accord went flying through the night air, along with blood, fur, and radiator fluid. I didn't slam on the breaks, I just pulled over in the shoulder and said something to the effect of "Son of a bitch". My wife was rather surprised but managed to kind of laugh.
I went to inspect the damage, although it was dark. All but one of the head lights were completely smashed. The front end was caved in and the smell of radiator fluid in the air was strong. The power stearing was also destroyed. The bumper itself (that metal bar accross the front of the vehicle, not the bumper cover), was incredibly still in tact. The hood was completely smashed. I walked about 150m back to look at the deer. It was, needless to say, dead. I kicked it and said "Look at you now bitch!". I then called my insurance company and awaited the cops to arrive. I was however able to drive it home, max 40 mph.
The funny thing is, I've hit a deer going just as fast with an SUV that had a brush guard. It simply ran the deer over, no damage what-so-ever to the vehicle. Another time, I hit a deer with a different SUV, and it sent the deer flying into the ditch, rather amusing actually. No damage to that car either. A Honda Accord sedan is a different story however.
So in short, I'm just paying a 500$ deductable and getting a free rental car. Not a bad deal, but it sure is a pain in the ass, as I can't get to class this morning. Who else here has a hit something with their car? I'm curious to hear, since this experience has really got me worked up. I hate deer, and I'm going on a crusade to kill them all...
EDIT: Here are some pictures too.
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pic2 (http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u6/pudgedog69/DSC05337.jpg)
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Barnacles
March 24th, 2008, 05:31 PM
Once some friends and I were driving through the country at night doing about 100 km per hour (61MPH~) , I was in the back, and looking out the window when I saw what looked like a 10 foot tall man in a trench coat with antenna like protrusions coming off the head, like a monster almost. It basically looked like it was going as fast as us but I guess it was running from the side of the road and ran into my back side door and scared the f'ing shit out of me. No damage and it ran away.
Match
March 24th, 2008, 06:14 PM
I'd imagine that Honda accord would be designed to buckle when hitting an organic body as a safety feature intended to cushion the blow and increase the chances of survival. It's too bad really. :(
Enkidu
March 24th, 2008, 06:18 PM
At least you didn't wreck your car the same way I recked my truck over the weekend. :( :(
a3990918
March 24th, 2008, 07:29 PM
I hit a deer about 12-13 yrs ago up by St. Louis, Mo. Was on a 4 lane hi-way about 11 pm, 80mph and in heavy traffic. All of a sudden this fucker comes running up out of a stand of trees, thru the ditch and across the shoulder. With the traffic as heavy as it was I couldn't swerve but a ft or 2 to the left.
The Caprice I was driving caught the deer's head right in the headlight area. That didn't do much damage just a busted headlight and trim, but, the impact spun the deer's body around ind into the fender. The fender was smashed in so far that I couldn't turn the wheel without the tire rubbing.:( Also pushed it back far enough to keep the Pass. door from opening.
After getting the car stopped we got out a hunting knife and were going to field dress the deer and then call the Game Warden.
Only problem was we had hit the deer about 25 yds from a drainage ditch that had concrete barriers set up about 24" from the roadway. When we got stopped we were on the otherside of the ditch. Wasn't anyway in Hell I was going to risk getting hit to retrieve that carcass. :mad:
Long story short, called the Hi-Way patrol, asked them to inform Game Warden as to the carcasses location and went home. $2200 in damages...
Shadowmartyr
March 24th, 2008, 08:36 PM
Not to bad compared to what I've seen...you're lucky it didn't go through the glass and hit you, and while it was still alive kicking you in the process (there was a story in the local paper how a lady was -kicked- to death by a deer that went through the windshield, kind of tragic really ).
I don't know where you are from but around here in Missouri the wildlife is everywhere, and unfortunately a lot of people get injured/die from hitting them. And you seem some pretty nasty ones, a lot of semis come through here on the rural roads, peterbilts with deer guards on them, big spikey things, and they will literally make the deer explode its kind of funny to watch.
Anyways hope you get your car fixed. :)
Emil
March 24th, 2008, 08:55 PM
O dear...... Looks like that deer made sure he did he some damaged before passing onto another life.
Sorry to hear that man but the main thing everyone in the car was alright.
The biggest thing I've hit was a fox. Was the size of a medium to large dog. Was probs going about 40mph on a country road. All of a sudden the little fucker pops out. My mate said "Look out"!
With out any time to react I ran straight over it lol. The car went up in the air slighty like a big bump and that was it. The pile of mess behind me was just roadkill for the hungry crows. No damage to my car though lol :cool:
However a fox and a deer are in completely different catagories. I'm sure the front end of my car would of crumpled up just as much as yours had it been a deer I hit, but hey... there ain't no deer where I'm from! lol.
Hope you get that fixed... poor Honda accord :(
Hirudinea
March 24th, 2008, 09:57 PM
http://www.theretrovert.com/maingrafx/DontKillSplash.jpg
Sorry, when I saw it I just couldn't resist. :D
Rbick
March 25th, 2008, 12:36 PM
Ha very funny... :p
You guys should see the bad ass car the rental place gave me. Its a Mazda minivan. Hells yeah. I was thinking about filling it with kids soccer gear and putting a "I Heart Soccer" bumper sticker on it.
Charles Owlen Picket
March 26th, 2008, 11:36 AM
Deer are really tragically stupid (as are bovine). I am really careful as sometimes I drive a bike and if I hit a deer with that - I perish with the deer. There's nothing you can do about it. I believe as they are so fucking stupid they will freeze and then RUN like a fucking panic stricken girl right into you. I once had one run at my vehicle but it missed. I was driving down a lone road and I saw it out of the corner of my eye; it seemed to run BEHIND me! I have seen others hit deer. One time a woman with a young child and the thing was still alive, as she hit it while going slower than the speed limit. I told the kid to turn away and dispatched the deer (no shit) and kept it. We have a place in town that butchers game animals for super cheap if you use their facilities and will smoke 'em. I made a bunch of jerky for about 2 cents a pound. I still have some 3 years later! That stuff is good if you use Teriaki sauce and hot peppers.
Shadowmartyr 's story about the thing going through the windshield may happen MORE OFTEN than many would believe! I think I actually read that very story or one so close as to be right on the money. The fucking thing is a prey animal and therefore stupid....Jesus, I hate that sort of crap.
I would have kicked it too.
gaussincarnate
March 26th, 2008, 03:25 PM
I have actually know a few people who have been hit by deer, as in they were stopped or going really slowly and were blindsided by deer. Not only are they dumb enough to sit there and let you hit them, now they are actually running at cars from the side or from behind.
On an entirely unrelated note, have any of you ever seen that video of the deer that ran into someone's house (via sliding glass doors) and just wrecked the inside of the house? That would have to be one of the most suprising things that could ever happen to you, aside from that time when a guy woke up with a bear in his house and he killed it with a kitchen knife.
generallisimo
March 26th, 2008, 09:47 PM
It happens so much here that the legislature passed a law that allowed us the right to keep and eat our road kill.
So all this talk is making me hungry.
ONLY
March 27th, 2008, 03:52 PM
A friend of mine hit a horse doing 45 in a explorer totaled the truck and busted him up pretty bad.
rangegal
March 31st, 2008, 11:06 PM
Some guy hit a deer in front of my house just 10 minutes ago. Stupid thing darted across the road up a steep hill at which point the guy hit the brakes and slowed down, but not enough I guess. The thing then ran back down the hill and right back in front of the car.
Charles Owlen Picket
April 1st, 2008, 10:06 AM
Hey it's fucking Spring; this shit is going to happen just like rattlesnakes will be out in force in Summer. Save any speed for the highway and in rural areas, be super careful. I also hope that all you that have kids or younger siblings - make sure they use a seatbelt, etc.....
tmp
April 8th, 2008, 02:35 PM
Those things are a nuisance in my area. Last summer, one of my drivers, in a
van hit one on the passenger corner. She came back pretty upset as the
deer ran off after the impact. There wasn't even a scrape on the van. I told
her not to worry because Bambi probably just got his antlers clipped. :D
Alexires
April 14th, 2008, 10:54 PM
Charles - I know where you are coming from. I ride a bike as well, and it's scary stuff sometimes. Over here we don't have deer, but we have kangaroos and koalas. Shit, if you hit either (in a car or a bike) you are toast. Koalas are tough little bastards that will rip shit out of the bottom of your car, or fuck you up on a bike.
Kangaroos will jump back up and kick you. You may think that is funny, but those things can jump 10m+ in length, and getting kicked by those legs are not funny in the slightest.
It's how the male kangaroos fight. They sit back on their tails and kick at each other, and getting kicked like that will knock you the fuck down.
Actually, funny story about that. Girlfriends parents were driving home one night and hit a kangaroo. Luckily they managed to just nudge it up onto the bonnet. Girlfriends dad got out to make sure it was ok, and the stunned fucker kicked him (it was lying on the ground) and knocked his feet out.
He'd had a few drinks, so in true aussie style, stands up (by this time the roo had stood up too) and starts a punch up with it. After trading a few hits, he gets the upper hand pounds crap out of it, grabs it by its tale and drags it off the road and throws it into a ditch :D
Fucking roos. Get motorcyclists that him them, cut the roo in half, and totals the bike, rider, anything else around. :eek:
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