posted on October 24, 2001 05:04:09 AM new
Less than a mile from home at 5:55am this morning I was going to feed my moms' cats (she's in the hospital) and what runs out in front of me? A great big buck. He's ok, my car isn't. The bad thing about this is less than a year ago I hit one on the same side. I told DH it's time to get rid of this car. Anyone want to buy a 1995 Monte Carlo Z34? It will be in great shape as soon as the body shop gets done with it.
posted on October 24, 2001 06:27:00 AM new
Oh man, my sympathies to you! Glad you're OK! My DH hit a deer just last week, so now you and he have matching cars.
posted on October 24, 2001 07:04:28 AM new
Consider yourself fortunate. I have seen a lot of these collisions in Michigan and a lot were fatal to both parties.
What is even worse I saw a lady hit a Moose with an MG sports car. Both were dead on impact. They fix sheet metal - don't get too shook about that.
I'm just glad YOU are OK.
posted on October 24, 2001 07:13:23 AM new
Glad to hear your ok!....Think it's a black car thing?....We had one slip (it was raining) right into the side of my big balck van this summer in PA. Unfortunately fixing the dent would probably be about the $$ as my detuctable, so I'm leavin' it & looking for a deer sticker to put over it!....
I could NOT live in a place where they are everywhere. Nope, I'd be a nervous wreck driving!
posted on October 24, 2001 07:17:25 AM new
I got a new Ford Escape in Feb., in May I was going about 60 down a backroad and hit a turkey. That sucker was huge, exploded my windshield in on me and bent the frame around the window slightly. Scared the crap out of me. The conversation with American Express Insurance was the funniest I ever had. I told the lady some turkey hit me, she said, "I know he was a turkey for crashing up your new car, but I need his tag number and insurance information." It went on like that for about 10 minutes, when she figured it out, she had to put the phone down she was laughing so hard.
posted on October 24, 2001 12:31:16 PM new
My funny insurance story:
I was snow skiing, first snow of the season. Some idiot, skiing out of control in the bunny area hit me from behind (no warning, i.e. on your left, on your right), knocked me down, and ran his brand new ski with razor sharp edges over my thumb, cutting it to the bone. He didn't even stop, so I didn't get his name or license number.
I had stitches on my thumb, but the scar just looks like another thumb wrinkle.
Now, this was a loooong time ago, and when I wrote out the accident report for my health insurance, I wrote "some guy, whose parents were not married when he was born, crashed into me ......"
Not my name on ebay.
posted on October 24, 2001 01:29:56 PM new
Get a pair of those high pitch whistles that glue below the front bumper. Deer hear them coming and give you a wide birth. They work.
posted on October 24, 2001 01:53:55 PM new
valleygirl, that gave me the willies. I was whacking on a big hunk of frozen chicken on 4th of July when I filleted my finger instead of the chicken. I heard and felt the knife hit the finger bone. It bled and bled. I have a ridged up scar on the side of my finger where it didn't heal properly. Anything like that really hurts. I used to be a claims processor for Mutual of Omaha, you would be suprised at the stories people would write on the accident area of the claim. I would be to embarrassed to write what some of those people put down.
posted on October 24, 2001 01:56:32 PM new
Guys at an auto body shop once told me he sees plenty of deer vs. car accidents come in with the whistles still on the bumper.
posted on October 24, 2001 03:27:15 PM new
What a timely topic! My husband is working in a very rural area of western PA and last week, on his way to work early in the AM, a huge deer ran onto the road and he hit it broadside. Said he didn't know what happened for a minute or two, it all happened so fast.
The deer was killed instantly and, thankfully, my husband was uninjured. I've heard lots of deer accident stories and many times the driver is killed, so we were lucky. The car was heavily damaged and is still being repaired.
My husband is still pretty shook up about the accident, though, and doesn't want to drive on those roads. So, my question: I happen to have those deer whistles, purchased at a garage sale this summer with no intention of ever using them; can't resist an odd item for a quarter!
I've got one poster saying they work and one that they might not. Anyone with experience in driving in an area with lots of deer traffic? I guess it wouldn't hurt to try them, but now I'm curious what people do who live with this problem.
posted on October 24, 2001 05:23:46 PM new
Yo, Spaz, We have heard many a chef say over his venison roast, "Look another one of those #&*@%* whistles from the front of a vehicle!"
posted on October 24, 2001 11:30:23 PM new
I slid into a moose about 8 years ago. I saw him in time to slow down but the road was icy and the car kind of bumped him. They are very big. He just kind of looked at me as if to say "Hey!" and then just turned around and walked back into the woods. Was very glad I wasn't going faster. Scared me.
posted on October 25, 2001 08:10:54 AM new
My mother has hit two deer (so far) in her driving career, both within the same year. My father told her that if he had known she wanted to hunt deer, he would have bought her a gun instead of a car ...
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El
"The customer may not always be right, but she is always the customer."
posted on October 25, 2001 08:32:59 AM new
Oddly, I was discussing deer whistles just the other night with a friend that had them mounted to the front of his pickup. I asked about them, having never seen them before. He seems to think they work. He says the deer just freeze on the side of the road with their ears perked and an expression on their face that seems to say "what the heck is that noise?".
My friend drives 70 miles each way to work, through thick deer-roaming Virgina countryside. He's had SEVERAL episodes of buckskin-bumber over the last few years, four in 1999 alone. He's only had one since installing the whistle over a year ago.
It crossed my mind, too, Rancher24, that black vehicles may be involved in these incidents more often than other colors. My friend's 1999 truck was black.
Rosie
*There is no conclusive evidence that life is serious*
posted on October 25, 2001 09:25:05 AM new
I worked with two guys in a shop who were up north in Michigan driving their van and a huge buck came bounding out of the woods and they smacked it - busted the grill all up and broke the windshield. They stopped and the one said we passed a DNR (Dept' Natural Resources) station about 3 miles back. Lets take it back there and see if the rangers want it for anything. So they dragged it around to the back and stuffed it in the van. When they got to the DNR the guy came out to the van with them and when they opened the door the buck hit the DNR guy like a freight train knocking him flat on his back and left little hoovy prints right up the front of him.
They just knocked him out.
