Is that a Deer in your Bumper?

[GT98]

The deer travelled 25 miles while trapped in the bumper

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/3723508.stm

[Brian Ellis]

Oh, deer! Glad it wasn't seriously hurt, but it must have got a fright!

[High_Jumbllama]

Poor dear.

[ZokesPro]

Looks like his paw scraped against the asphalt, poor thing.

[Dr Mordrid]

DINNER !!

Here in the US there are states that now recommend just HITTING deer that get in the road.

Seems that way too many people were getting killed or seriously injured when cars veered into the opposing lane to avoid them & ended up in head-on collisions.

It's not like there's a shortage of deer in the US since most states in their range have populations of 2-5 million each plus does typically have twins each breeding season. Even with large scale hunting seasons the population just keeps growing.

Dr. Mordrid

[Kruzin]

Yea, deer overpopulation is a big problem here in Colorado.
I drive 60 miles in and out of the mountains every day, and see dead deer at the roadside at least twice a week.
Unfortunatly, the tree-huggers can't seem to grasp the idea of population control for these animals, and each year permits are reduced or restricted, leaving more of these animals to get mowed down on the road or to die from grange or starvation.

[Helevitia]

In the news this morning, they were saying that Caltrans(California Transit) picks up 6 deer a week on average off of our highways just in the Bay Area.

[Taz]

If you can't see a friggin' deer in the road you shouldn't be driving If you hit a deer and think it was a stone you also shouldn't be driving

[Jon P. Inghram]

If you can't see a friggin' deer in the road you shouldn't be driving

I don't know about deer in the UK, but here in Kansas the damn things can be virtually invisible under the right conditions. When I was a courier I'd had quite a few encounters with them, and always because they jumped out into the road right in front of me. Even had one jump out and then instead of continuing across the road, it started to run directly away from my car, I.E. straight down the middle of the lane! I guess my car must have frightened it with the loud screeching sounds and clouds of rubber it made.

[Taz]

Sure I can understand you not seeing it before it's jumped in front of you, but I expect you did see it after it had jumped in front of you And if you had the misfortune to actually hit it I would expect you would know what it was you had hit.

[gt40]

sometimes they come out low enough and fast enough you don't even see them - especially at night.

[High_Jumbllama]

Oh come on.
Nobody got my play on words?

[Mehen]

"He thought he'd driven over a stone and didn't think anything of it, it was only when he got to work some colleagues pointed it out," she said.
Uhh... how could... uhh.. /me is confused.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Yeah, if I hit something that made that much noise I'd pull over to check for damage at the first convienent location, I wouldn't just ignore it and drive one. Plus I'd look in the rear-view mirror to see what it was, and if I didn't see anything I'd damn well pull over to be sure I wasn't dragging something... once I saw a car driving on the freeway with a entire WHEEL stuck under the front bumper, sparks flying everywhere.

[Dr Mordrid]

That deer was pretty small, maybe 30 lbs or so (~13 kg) and could easily be dragged without the driver knowing.

This kind of thing would be very unlikely with Michigan Whitetail deer. I've dragged quite a few 200-250 pounders out of our woods....and I doubt a driver would miss that

Dr. Mordrid