Tuesday morning I was minding my own business driving to work when a deer decided to run into my car.

Sorry pic did not post the first time...

You have to stop wearing that musk aftershave. <tsk>

man, i hate that. i've hit several deer and it happens so fast. last one was a deer came running out of the full corn and ran into the side of my car. just saw a brown flash then BAM.... $3200 damage.

Hey! That is a great excuse

Next time I crash into something.... I am going to use that one for sure

Do you want me to send you some more kangaroo whistles? You know they work... I bet you never hit any kangaroos when you had them on the old honda?

At least it hit your door, you can bolt that off and bolt on a new one...


Lucky it never came in the windsheild

Or on your hood....

Yep they just run out and hit you.....or they run out and hit the front of your car and bounce off the windshield...The one I hit in the Honda CRX a few years ago took out both front fenders, grill, hood and windshield.

Nope I have not hit a single roo since I put the 'roo whistles on!

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Amazing how much damage it caused considering it was just the velocity of the deer that did it .... on a front hit the velocity of the car hitting the deer makes a lot more damage.

Back in my body shop days we would get very busy with deer collisions around Sept to Oct as the herds moved to the forest for the winter. Our wildlife federation is a club of private hunters who would cover all insurance deductibles in wildlife damage ... they were a great bunch and very generous.

Trouble is after 20 years and almost a million dollars they had to quit .... they were being flooded with deer-hit claims yet the highway workers records did not show an increase in roadkill.

Turns out lots of people were having fender benders and would find a bit of blood and deer hair to plaster on the car to make it look like a no-fault accident claim.

HAAAAAA .... me too .... and I dont even have a 'Roo whistle.

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Back in my auto-body days and when I had in-laws I was sitting with them outside on lawn chairs when we heard what sounded like screaming.

They lived beside a small country highway and when we looked in the direction of the screaming there was a family in a minivan and a buck deer running at full speed , head down , charging at the van and hit it broadside .... the kids in the back seat had been watching it charge the van thus all the screaming.

The van was a goldish -brown -deer color and we speculate it was defending its territory ... the buck remained upright , a bit dazed but walked away after about 10 minutes ... the family was too afraid to get out to inspect the damage and drove away.

4 days later the van ended up in my shop for repairs and there were 2 puncture holes where the antler tips went thru the side sliding door ... looked just like bullet holes ... .... mind you it was a Chrysler mini-van and they had thin cheap body panels ... we called them tin boxes.

When the mother dropped the van off she wasn't worried about the damage ... she said the biggest problem was the children who were now terrified of deer and afraid of being in a car .... she said it sounded like a shotgun going off inside the vehicle and with all the broken glass sprayed inside the van the parents also thought they had been hit by a bullet .... they did not see the deer when it charged.

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Worst animal crash I fixed was a brand new fully loaded chev truck .... on the way home from the dealership the owner hit a huge bull on the highway .... the whole front of the truck was pushed right up to the firewall , engine mounts were broken , even the alternator was broken off and embedded in the heater-fan housing.

But the frame was not damaged because the front bumper only hit the legs of the bull , and because it was a new truck the insurance company decided to fix it.

What a mess ... the whole truck was covered in bullshit and my shop smelled like a barn for 2 weeks fixing it.

I did a careful job repairing it and the owner was happy .... but later he came back with a transmission leak .... when the engine was shoved back the driveshaft yoke impacted the rear seal and damaged it .... then later he had to change both universal joints .... then later he had to do differential repairs .... GM uses a crush sleeve on the pinion bearing set to a torque value and the impact had gone thru the driveshaft and crushed the spacer making the pinion loose which then damaged the ring gear ... cost him over a thousand dollars and the insurance company tried to say it was un-related to the accident.

The truck owner asked me for help so I typed and signed a statement describing how during the accident the backward movement of the engine and transmission caused the damage to the rest of the drive train.

I also stated the truck owner should put the whole issue in front of a judge to make a ruling .... because in cases like that , the truck owner's insurance company would not end up paying a cent ... they would make a claim against the owner of the bull and HIS farm insurance would pay for everything.

When he showed them the letter his adjuster left his cubicle and 15 minutes later returned with a check covering all the additional damage plus an extra $1000 for "incidentals"

Sorry for the long rant ... I am house-bound and felt like telling a true bullshit story .... HAAAA ... best wishes guys !!!

elwood ... I also wanted to mention that the majority of the deer-hit customers I had were like you ... good drivers with nice cars who otherwise never get into accidents or abuse their cars . Their cars could even be several years old without even a stone chip anywhere . People with beater cars rarely had deer collisions.

Not sure why but that was the pattern.

Muz ... That was a funny prank video with the talking deer on the hood ... HAAAA

Around 1974 I headed south on a delayed honeymoon to Las Vegas. Fool that I was I did not know the excellent Interstate Highway system in the USA ... so I simply mapped out the shortest route which was mostly rural paved roads in North and South Dakota .... with not much traffic at night .... which was fine except after sundown thousands of mule-deer were all over the road.

Not afraid of traffic , eating grass on the edge of the road , some standing on the pavement .... I had never seen that before and ended up at 20-30 mph weaving around them .

Must also have been hunting season because at all the little towns and gas stations every other car had a deer strapped on the hood , roof , or trunk lid .... never seen that before either . The truck owners had the deer in the box and a gun rack in the back window parked at the bars telling true hunting stories.

When I asked them about all the deer standing on the highways they looked at me like some weird guy from some strange country with foreign license plates on my car .... which I confess was all true at the time.

But as soon as I got home from holidays I installed one of those cool gun racks in my truck and that is where I kept my rifles for years afterword , never had to lock the doors , often keys were left in the ignition , never any problem .... my how things have changed.

That can't be true Narnie?

Deer are all docile and friendly aren't they? Just like Bambi? (or not!)