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Subman · 12-03-2019, 01:21 PM

Glad it wasn't worse. I watch for them closely, especially on my bikes.

Up here (and maybe where you are too) moose are an even bigger worry. Damn swamp donkeys are nearly black and at dusk/dawn almost impossible to see coming out of the woods.

MrBen · 12-03-2019, 07:40 PM

You can consider yourself fortunate. People have been killed when a deer comes through the windshield and thrashes around inside the vehicle. Not to mention loose of control. My county and the one next door lead the state in car deer crashes. I never ride my Harley later in the evening after September for that very reason

BoxMann · 12-09-2019, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by MrBen

People have been killed when a deer comes through the windshield and thrashes around inside the vehicle.

WOW, never knew that. I knew that people have been killed hitting deer, but didn't know it ever happened that way.

kk2002s · 12-09-2019, 10:03 AM

You are certainly very fortunate. I see carcasses all over driving through the farm lands and of course the live ones I miss. I'm always thinking that it's just a matter of time until it it's my turn. I have been riding off road motorcycles and it's a problem in the woods as well. They fly across the trail all the time. A couple weeks ago I was riding with a group through the woods, 30 - 35 mph when one flew across the trail 1-2 bike lengths in front of me. They have been known to broad side riders. Can't see them coming because they just blend in until they are in front of you.

Good luck getting your baby back together again. At least it's winter time so you'll not lose much good driving weather.

Frodo · 12-09-2019, 01:03 PM

Yeah, I've had an occasional close call with deer. The worst? Was within 1/2 mile from home and, as usually seems to be the case, one totally unexpectedly bounds across the road in front of me. He was super close—all I had time to do was lift the accelerator foot. As I've told people before when talking about the near-miss, if I'd been sitting on the frunk up by the left headlight I could have smacked him in the arse as he went by.

I was only doing maybe 35-40 mph. If I had been going any faster, I'd have nailed him.