Nissan 370Z Forum  

I ran over a deer.

Happened in my sister's Nissan Versa (not my Z), thankfully. This happened on a drive from Montreal to Canada to Los Angeles area and happened in Ohio. I flew out

Go Back   Nissan 370Z Forum > Nissan 370Z General Area > The Lounge (Off Topic) > Other Vehicles


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 11-05-2013, 10:20 PM   #1 (permalink)
Enthusiast Member
 
houkouonchi's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ontario, California
Posts: 440
Drives: '14 GT-R '10 M6 370z
Rep Power: 15
houkouonchi has a spectacular aura abouthoukouonchi has a spectacular aura about
Default I ran over a deer.

Happened in my sister's Nissan Versa (not my Z), thankfully.

This happened on a drive from Montreal to Canada to Los Angeles area and happened in Ohio. I flew out to Montreal to help my sister with the drive back to California as she was moving back home from Montreal. I was the one driving when we hit the deer.

What is amazing is that literally 30 min before this happened I ran into the exact same situation. Suddenly I see chunks of a deer before I see its near whole carcass so I swerve (pretty hard) into the other lane. The left over carcass was about 70-80% of a full deer in the middle of the lane. Luckily the chunks of the deer gave enough warning (they were 15-20 feet ahead of the deer carcass) to dodge that one.

So then I decide to put on my brights on (even if it annoyed people in the lane going the other way which was a bit away) and drive in the fast lane (left lane) instead as this happened in Ohio and almost everyone keeps to the right there (unlike cali).

Fast-forward to 30 min later... Boom; yet another deer. This time the chunks/pieces of the deer were not much before the actual deer came up (3-4 feet) and it was near the center line. Just not enough time to avoid it in that car going 70 mph especially since i would have to go completely in the other lane as it was hitting the center line. Instincts kicked in and I simply changed the course slightly to try to get it to go right down the middle of the car. Again it was 70-80% of a deer carcass (and pieces laying around)

I *might* have been able to avoid it in my 370z but even that is iffy. I might have tried which could have ended up worse. Unfortunately the problem I think comes down to a lot with the fact there was basically no moon out (Nov. 2nd the day before the newmoon) and of course no street lights or anything (so pitch black) and that the road was one of those darker color'd ones (giving less light pickup IMHO) and the fact that it was slightly wet giving back quite a bit of glare from the high-beams as well.

My sister was asleep both times. The first one she got woken up by the sudden lane change and I told her I narrowly missed hitting a deer. By the time she gets back to sleep she gets to wake up to me Yelling "F*CK" and then a big boom about 500ms later.

Amazingly little damage to the car. The only thing it did was it stretched out/messed up the cable for popping the hood (which was annoying as I wanted to check out the engine compartment) and it bent back a metal plate that was helping the exhaust pipe keep in place. We were in the middle of nowhere and it was like 5 AM (still dark out). We noticed a problem soon with the exhaust pipe as there was a very loud rumbling (kind of sounded like something hitting on a fan so I initially thought it was radiator fans hitting on deer material but soon figured out the tail pipe was no longer secured and the vibrations hitting against the metal was causing it.

Because if it was the middle of nowhere we decided to drive on to the nearest Denny's to eat and wait for the nearest Nissan Dealership to open which was about 90 miles away. The RPM seemed to have some resonance frequency with the tail-pipe when it was about 3k RPM it wasn't all that loud so I tried to keep the rpm's right there pretty much the rest of the trip, it was really bad during acceleration or when turning the car on/off. Luckily the dealer was able to bend the plate back (as they didn't have a new one in stock) which was able to tide us over until we got to California (we arrived yesterday).

For anyone interested (there is some blood/gore) here is what the bottom of the Versa looked like from the aftermath:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiUSQnubHSc

And sorry I was distracted by the guy so video isn't great.

Of course this is all after we basically got stuck at the U.S. border for basically 6 hours (plus another 2-3 hours of wasted driving because of it) as well. Also later in the trip my sister's eyeglasses randomly lost a lense while being put in the cd-holder above the radio. Just was a shitty trip (as far as things happening) in general.

Last edited by houkouonchi; 11-05-2013 at 10:23 PM.
houkouonchi is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-05-2013, 10:52 PM   #2 (permalink)
A True Z Fanatic
 
eastwest2300's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: South FL
Posts: 90,990
Drives: '16QX70/'21 Supra3.0
Rep Power: 2684550
eastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Damn dude, I'm sorry this happened, one of my biggest fears is hitting a dear, at night, I literally try to keep the pace behind someone else, I REALLY try to not drive in a lane with no one in front of me just for this reason, I figure the person in front of me will hit it, and I'll be able to slow down.
__________________
Infiniti QX70 & Toyota Supra 3.0 Premium
eastwest2300 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-06-2013, 04:41 AM   #3 (permalink)
Enthusiast Member
 
houkouonchi's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ontario, California
Posts: 440
Drives: '14 GT-R '10 M6 370z
Rep Power: 15
houkouonchi has a spectacular aura abouthoukouonchi has a spectacular aura about
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by eastwest2300 View Post
Damn dude, I'm sorry this happened, one of my biggest fears is hitting a dear, at night, I literally try to keep the pace behind someone else, I REALLY try to not drive in a lane with no one in front of me just for this reason, I figure the person in front of me will hit it, and I'll be able to slow down.
Yeah.. unfortunately it was SOO dead that night as far as traffic goes. I mean we were stopped for like 20-25 min to check out the situation before we started on again and only like 5-6 cars passed in that entire amount of time and most of them were trucks going super slow and we had 3000 miles to cover so...
houkouonchi is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-06-2013, 06:12 AM   #4 (permalink)
A True Z Fanatic
 
blackcherry20's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Southern Ohio
Posts: 22,749
Drives: ‘17 badazz Z51
Rep Power: 240459
blackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond reputeblackcherry20 has a reputation beyond repute
Default


welcome to Ohio...deer everywhere. I dodge live ones daily and did the same thing you did (hit a dead one laying in the road) in my Civic...up and over as it was a whole carcass.
thank god you weren't in the Z. It would have had some damage I dare say.
Glad you made it home safely though.
__________________
Grand Sport Corvette Arctic White
blackcherry20 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-06-2013, 08:17 AM   #5 (permalink)
A True Z Fanatic
 
eastwest2300's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: South FL
Posts: 90,990
Drives: '16QX70/'21 Supra3.0
Rep Power: 2684550
eastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by houkouonchi View Post
Yeah.. unfortunately it was SOO dead that night as far as traffic goes. I mean we were stopped for like 20-25 min to check out the situation before we started on again and only like 5-6 cars passed in that entire amount of time and most of them were trucks going super slow and we had 3000 miles to cover so...
sh1t man, im telling you driving at night, its constantly on my mind, and im definitely on the look out for them fvckers. I hope you get everything fixed.
__________________
Infiniti QX70 & Toyota Supra 3.0 Premium
eastwest2300 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-06-2013, 08:18 AM   #6 (permalink)
A True Z Fanatic
 
eastwest2300's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: South FL
Posts: 90,990
Drives: '16QX70/'21 Supra3.0
Rep Power: 2684550
eastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond reputeeastwest2300 has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by blackcherry20 View Post

welcome to Ohio...deer everywhere. I dodge live ones daily and did the same thing you did (hit a dead one laying in the road) in my Civic...up and over as it was a whole carcass.
thank god you weren't in the Z. It would have had some damage I dare say.
Glad you made it home safely though.
Cherries, i've never seen one during the day for the few times I've driven up to michigan on that rip off toll system that goes to toledo.
__________________
Infiniti QX70 & Toyota Supra 3.0 Premium
eastwest2300 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Hit a deer tonight :( RyanWest Nissan 370Z General Discussions 42 06-19-2012 09:59 PM
F**K! deer USMCASA Nissan 370Z General Discussions 42 12-07-2011 06:20 PM
Stupid F-ing deer! Mike Nissan 370Z General Discussions 42 12-27-2010 05:24 PM
Deer collision Blackbelt Nissan 370Z General Discussions 29 12-09-2010 12:52 PM


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:06 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2