Nishant

This was my first encounter with a deer on the road. I have always seen them in the woods and what not but here goes...
Driving home from seeing "The Incredibles" and chatting with my friend about the movie. I turn onto a road, 2 lane a bit narrow with housing and woods on both sides(no shoulder) with a 45mph. I'm doing 50-55. All of a sudden, I see something in the middle of the road. OH SHIT ITS a F***IN DEER (my exact thoughts). I hit the brakes and honk at it. The deer is standing on the yellow lines with its body parallel to the lines. I honked at it thinking it would get scared and move away. Yes it does get scared but what direction does it move, right at me. I was like f*** and moved as far to the right and went a lil off road. That thing was literally 2 inches from hitting my door. It wound up running off the other direction. I pulled aside, no damage to my friends car (IS300 which I was driving).

One thing I learned, even with HIDs you will not see a deer until the last second. I must have seen it when it was about 30-40, 50ft at most away. Either do your best to completely stop or swerve like the whole lane is a huge pothole. I realize now that if I had been in my dad's car (Accord), I would have hit the deer head on or the deer would have rammed my door. Pretty glad I made it home safe!

Wrx Paul

Deer are nothing! Come back when you have a horse problem.

freq

Been an passenger in a car (Mustang 5.0 no less) that had a horse incident.

Nishant

horse = me shitting in my pants

revhi

That was close. My friend had a deer run into the side of his truck while he was doing 40.

YELOSCREAMER

Glad to hear you avoided bambi I have been told this (TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK ) If you are faced with a deer in the road and you think (Or Know) you are going to hit it head on....Turn out your headlamps and PRAY! I've been told this works, because they will not just sit there and stare into your headlights.

LSHatch

You got lucky. I slammed a deer going pretty fast. That was not fun. HIt my front right side, rolled up my hood, smacked my windshield and flew over my car. I'll post a link to the pic of the car a little later.

Nishant

I swear that once i honked, that thing just stared at me. I was thinking that if i didn't honk i would have drove right by it but i didn't wanna take the chance, especially since it was not my car.

meriggi

I hit one on my street going about thirty, he just "bounced" off and kept going! I was not so lucky, have about $1800 worth of damage!

-Steve

LSHatch

I HATE DEER!



That's what a deer will do to your car. 11k in damage and 2 months later, I got the car back .