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Originally Posted by dmhenderson
Of course I used the brakes. I downshifted, braked and turned hard right to attempt to avoid the impact and the deer struck my left front fender dead on. You can pretty clearly see where the point of impact was from the pictures. It drilled my front left fender/wheel well, made a halfassed attempt to jump at the last second (destroying my windshield) then dragged down the side of the car ruining the door panel. ripping off the mirror and dinging the rear quarterpanel
Because the deer literally came charging from off the road to the left (and wasn't already in front of me), I didn't see it until it was on top of me which cost me reaction time. I had maybe a second or two tops to react and I did the best I could to protect the vehicle, myself and my passenger. All things considered, I think I did a pretty good job.
A direct hit to the engine bay or say...having the deer end up in my lap would have been a disaster.
You are correct that you do not swerve to avoid an animal that is in front of you. This deer wasn't standing in the path of the car so that advice doesn't apply here.
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I feel you on that... I better understand the situation. But like I said. What's most important is that you're ok. Sometimes we can't avoid an accident no matter what we do? But, in your statement you had said you were traveling at 45mph and tried to swerve. So that's why I gave the advice of trying to brake. But I see you tried to swerve and brake.
Either way... I'm just glad you're safe bruh.
All I was saying in general is we keep building cities because we're allowing our country to overpopulate too quickly. Between unlimited legal immigration, illegal immigration and some of the highest pregnancy rates in the world. We won't have anyplace for our wildlife to live. Eventually, we won't just be hitting deer. We'll be hitting moose, mountain lions, sheep, goat, horses, bears, and all kinds of other shyt. Its getting bad. We are at a point where we are getting all kinds of wild animals walking around inside cities. We never saw stuff like this 30 years ago. And its common now. People are hitting more deer than ever because of the enormous reduction in our forests over the last 30 years. Its just getting outta hand with all this construction. Wildlife has no choice but to travel where we do.