Driving on a country road in Noth Carolina late one night. I'm in my Mercedes coupe. Truck in front of me all the sudden hits his brakes and then does a big 'bounce' over something. I'm close enough to brake a bit but still run over the deer the truck in front of me knocked down. Wasn't a real big one, but (a) I sat pretty low and (b) the dang thing tried to get up just as I hit it. Had to replace the front bumper, grill and undertray. I'm probably pretty lucky that the car had pretty much a big, smooth undertray about 3/4 of the way from front to back or it would have been a lot worse. Pretty much just slid overtop of it once I knocked it back down.
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