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I hope I didn't hurt it badly!

by MissTerraK
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OMGosh!

I'm so upset and shaking like a leaf! My heart is still racing and my palms are sweaty even though I'm cold.

I was on my way home from lunch with my sister only a half mile from the house when I saw movement to my left. I glanced over and saw a deer barreling towards the road so I slammed on my brakes so hard I left skid marks on the road.

The first deer made it across and then the second deer was right in front of me. I saw it large as life in my windshield and just closed my eyes. I heard a thump on the passenger side front of the car and then the car was completely stopped. I looked to my right and didn't see the deer.

So I put my flashers on and got out, but I still didn't see the deer. I'm pretty sure it made it into the woods. I came back and checked my car for damage, but there wasn't any.

Please tell me this means I didn't injure it too badly. I couldn't have been going very fast as the speed limit is only 35 miles per hour, I wasn't speeding and I slammed on my brakes hard.

I'm utterly devastated! And still freaked out...

Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    Yikes. Perhaps you should get in touch with the local authorities. If the deer is badly hurt, maybe it would be best to try and find it and put it down.

    I think a large, stiff drink would be in order.
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      If there's no damage to your car and the deer made it into the woods that quick I'd say don't worry. It may be a little bruised, but not broken
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      • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
        Terra,

        Chances are if there is no damage to your vehicle than the deer is just fine. Sounds like it must have been moving well since it was gone so quickly.

        I would still follow Bravo's suggestion above and notify the local Game Warden or whatever you have for an agency in your state. They'll take a look to make sure that the animal isn't out there suffering, just in case.

        You might even want to take his second suggestion, too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

    Please tell me this means I didn't injure it too badly.
    This is almost certainly right, Terra.

    In these circumstances, hitting deer can even do amazing amounts of damage to your car without the deer being damaged at all. If there isn't even a mark on your car, it's really terribly unlikely that you've injured it much at all, let alone "too badly". Seriously.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      It's probably OK or with slight injury - but notifying game warden or what works as wildlife management system in your area would be best. That way you know you've done everything possible to help.

      If the deer was badly injured - broken bone or whatever, they can find him. If they don't find him, he's probably nursing a bruise and OK.
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  • Profile picture of the author alistair
    It's understandable that you might be feeling bad but like the others have said I think it's very unlikely you did it much harm, if any, and there's no point in stressing over something you can't change. It may be easy for me to say but worrying about the ifs and buts won't change a thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Hey Terra,

    Be careful with this strategy. Many people get killed trying to avoid deer every year. If it was snowing and you hit the brakes, you could go off the road and into a tree.

    As bad as it sounds, in many conditions you're better off keeping both hands on the wheel and hitting the deer.

    Still...I'm glad things seemed to have worked out for the best.
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
      I'm with Kurt on this. I saw an auto accident in which the driver was trying to avoid hitting a dog. Nobody got hurt but I made a conscious decision to avoid hitting an animal as long as I could do so safely.

      ...

      ...

      Unless it's a cat. :rolleyes:

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      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      Hey Terra,

      Be careful with this strategy. Many people get killed trying to avoid deer every year. If it was snowing and you hit the brakes, you could go off the road and into a tree.

      As bad as it sounds, in many conditions you're better off keeping both hands on the wheel and hitting the deer.

      Still...I'm glad things seemed to have worked out for the best.
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      • Profile picture of the author mikelmraz
        Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post

        I'm with Kurt on this. I saw an auto accident in which the driver was trying to avoid hitting a dog. Nobody got hurt but I made a conscious decision to avoid hitting an animal as long as I could do so safely.

        ...

        ...

        Unless it's a cat. :rolleyes:

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        What's worse is if you avoid hitting the animal and hit a human instead, or something along those lines.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Haha!

      Thanks Dave! I needed that laugh!

      Thank you to everyone, you have helped me tremendously. I have called and notified the proper authorities and rechecked my car. Absolutely no marks, not even one deer hair!

      Thanks Kurt!

      I'll try my best to to remember that if a deer or two should run out in front of me again. But I can't make any promises as I didn't think, I just reacted.

      Bravo and Tina, thanks for the recommendation on the er, calming my nerves advice. I read this a little late though.

      I'm not a big drinker at all, but do have some Asti in the garage fridge, er, I mean I did. LOL!

      I only meant to have a small glass, but umm, well, you know. TGIF, Haha! :p

      Just wait til hubby gets home!

      Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Hey Terra,

    Go outside right now, cup your hand and hit one of the hollow spots on the car. You know, where there's a big span of fender or the rear quarter panel. You don't have to hit it very hard to make a BIG noise. You just bumped the litter feller. He's already forgotten it as he meanders along some peaceful meadow eating the last trace of clover for the year.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    About a month ago I ran over a squirrel, cracked it like a walnut.

    The little fella ran to the middle of the road, did a 180 & tried to get back to the same side of the road he started from. This was during the daytime, I'm not sure what the H that squirrel was thinking.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      About a month ago I ran over a squirrel, cracked it like a walnut.

      The little fella ran to the middle of the road, did a 180 & tried to get back to the same side of the road he started from. This was during the daytime, I'm not sure what the H that squirrel was thinking.
      Oh no!

      Eww! Yuck!

      At least I didn't crunch anything under my tire, I might have popped that 2nd bottle of Asti then!

      Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Terra -going slow, and brakes on - then you say passenger side - not front? Everyone is right - if it got out of there that fast without being winded, you didn't do much to it.

    I hit a dog once. He bolted out of a ditch with high weeds right out in front of me. I found the owner but they never got back to me about how the little guy was fairing. I avoided that stretch of road forever after. It always made me feel sick to drive by that spot again.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Terra -going slow, and brakes on - then you say passenger side - not front? Everyone is right - if it got out of there that fast without being winded, you didn't do much to it.

      I hit a dog once. He bolted out of a ditch with high weeds right out in front of me. I found the owner but they never got back to me about how the little guy was fairing. I avoided that stretch of road forever after. It always made me feel sick to drive by that spot again.
      I think I said passenger side front. But yeah, it was the front, on the passenger side, lol!

      It actually was bounding and in the air when I closed my eyes.

      I'm thinking, hoping, I just clipped a back leg or hoof or something. But like I said, it was nowhere to be seen, it had disappeared into the woods.

      That's sad about the dog, too.

      Scary stuff when animals dart out in front of you.

      Terra
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      • Profile picture of the author 1byte
        I hit a skunk last year on a lonely stretch of road near my house in the pre-dawn morning. The undercarriage of my car really stunk for a few days, even after I washed it and put air freshener in the car. So I had to park it outside my garage until the smell went away.

        Then a month later, driving the exact same stretch of road, another skunk darted in front of me, and I hit that poor sucker as well. Once again I had to keep the car outside the garage for a few days until the odor subsided.

        Needless to say, I took a different route the next several months to avoid that skunk infested road.
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        • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
          I just overheard a couple of dear talking. One was saying; "I hope that lady in the car is alright. She looks pretty upset but with my leather coat I didn't feel a thing." :rolleyes:

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    A few years ago I was driving down this street in town, on my way home. This chicken ran out in front of my jeep (lol, this was in town), no way I could swerve to avoid the chicken. All I could do is slam on the brakes, it happened so fast.

    It sounded like 1 ran over a dozen basketballs. I looked in my rear view mirror & it looked like a pillow exploded, feathers were all over the place, floating in the air.

    What's up with chickens being in the street, while in town?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I used to work with a guy back around 2000, last time we talked (couple years ago) the whole front of his Nissan pickup truck was missing. He starts telling me how he hit a horse that ran out in front of his truck while he was driving down a road.

    I kid you not, no hood, no grill, he had a huge turtle shell (from a real turtle) over the air filter to keep the rain out of the intake, he had a plastic 2-liter bottle as the radiator overflow container, he had that white romex wiring like you have in a house for wiring, he had a huge wooden front bumper (looked like a thin railroad tie).

    I told him, he might be a redneck, I wasn't sure yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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    Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post


    I left skid marks on the road . . . .
    WOW!

    I'd have left skid marks somewhere else if that had happened to me
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  • Profile picture of the author David Braybrooke
    What do you call a deer without eyes? ... No idea.
    What do you call a deer without eyes or legs ... Still no idea.
    What do you call a deer without eyes, legs and is covered in blood. .... Still bloody no idea.

    Sorry! Too soon?
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by David Braybrooke View Post

      What do you call a deer without eyes?
      A blind deer.

      Originally Posted by David Braybrooke View Post

      What do you call a deer without eyes or legs
      A blind quadriplegic deer

      Originally Posted by David Braybrooke View Post

      What do you call a deer without eyes, legs and is covered in blood.
      A bleeding, blind quadriplegic deer

      Originally Posted by David Braybrooke View Post

      Sorry! Too soon?
      Sorry? Why? A bleeding, blind quadriplegic deer has nothing to do with me!

      Too soon? Apparently not! :p:p

      Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author esuresh
    I fell from bike trying to avoid a hen 3years before. Couldn't walk properly for 2 weeks. Had to use car insted of Bike for these two weeks. Was it worth it..? Don't know.
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