I just totaled my 2015 Mazda3 driving home from work. An Elk just ran into the side of my car as I was driving past. There was nothing I could even do. There's no lights on the road, no barriers, no signs, nothing... but the speed is 55 mph. He just ran right into my side.
To heck with the tailgater. Today the tailgater gets too much simpathy. We here in America have a rule for sppeed vs distance you should look it up. A women lost her life yes but if that tailgater was at the proper distance it could have been avoided.
Two years ago I was coming home from work at 2am and I was in a rural area. I was going 60 mph when I saw a deer to my left running towards the road from a field. I slammed on the brakes and still hit it anyway. I was able to keep the car straight. No one was behind me and the damage wasn’t terribly bad. The deer died. If I had never braked, I would had totaled my car since it’s a older car (2009 Chrysler 300). I have hit a deer twice and one happened in November before Thanksgiving and the recent one happened four days before Christmas.
He is absolutely right. A few days ago, when I was driving home, a small deer darted out in front of my car suddenly. It came out so fast and suddenly, I had no choice but to collide head on and take the damage. Surprisingly, not only did I drive my car safely home, but I didn't receive not even a scratch on my body. Thank God.
Same thing happened to me. I was in the far right lane on a six lane local interstate. Deer crossed the three eastbound lanes, the median, and then the two westbound lanes before I got to it. Totaled my Kia Optima. I didn't even see it, just saw a flash of brown by my left headlight before I ran over it. Tore up the engine and stuff underneath. Didn't hurt me any other than aggravating my back issues. Got a Ram 1500 now.
@@vkeitt21 thank god you walked away from the accident safe with minor back injuries. I remember years ago, a coworker I worked with hit a deer in her SUV, and she was severely injured and stayed in the hospital for about three months. Best tip for when you can't avoid a deer accident. Take the impact and avoid swerving off the road. Many fatal accidents from deer collisions occur when people swerve off the road and either hit a tree or flip over from a hill, ditch, etc.
My husband was in a car accident due to a deer there was no signs of deers and he ended up on the hospital in alabama his fractured 5discs on his back needed surgery.. his body is not the same
Remember this as well--hitting a deer is a comprehensive claim (if you have the coverage). Swerving and hitting a tree, guardrail, or anything else is a collision claim.
I hit a deer around 2006 in the gobles mi area. My drunken brother tried convincing everyone I made up the story despite the deer fur all over the damage to the vehicle.
Randy Rand...never swerve never brake????? Maybe if the average driver is as mindless as that advice is. I've avoided several crashes by slowing down ( braking). Bad advice from a professional who is teaching others how to avoid an accident. There must be a better catch phrase than never swerve never brake.
@johnnyXx4321 I respectfully disagree. I do think he meant not to swerve or break from the moment you see it. Countless times I have seen deer cross in front of me, and my initial reaction is to brake before I ever hit them. If I have a tailgater behind me, I'm in trouble, and so is the tailgater. Sometimes there is nothing you can do, no matter what. The only time (thankfully) that I was ever involved in a deer accident, the deer crossed the freeway median in the dark and slammed into my driver side door. I had no advanced warning whatsoever, and no time to brake or swerve. Thank God no other cars were near me in that dark night.
@@LPeskoran I was driving at night and saw deer crossing the road. I remembered in driver's training not to brake but I did slow down (manual transmission car). One last deer darted into my car and luckily it only grazed the back and I only lost a hubcap. Could have lost my life if I would have braked and/or swerved and hit a tree, house, or another car.
@Imafraid Jumitebeeinnagang I would have braked if I had the time, but it takes more than 1 second to even react and the deer shot in front of me in less time than that.
I plowed threw mine. Slammed on the brakes but kept it straight, ricocheted me into a fieldbut only a little over 1k in damages. Deer dead, car is still drives to this day.
WOW! How is this guy qualified to teach anything ? He never even thought to mention that it might be a good idea to slow down when you're in a deer crossing area. In my state they even have signs warning you of the danger.
Deer crossing signs are only good for city-country places. Those signs will not work in the wild rural. Deers are all over the place..in the least expected place.
This guy does know ABS brakes, doesn't he? True, you don't swerve as speed, but if you are on a road where you know there is no one behind you. Brake pedal to the floor (let the ABS system work) keep the car in a straight line and brace for impact.
Axelsanx plus ESC helps avoid loss of control due to swerving. People honestly need to know what their cars safety systems are and compensate accordingly
I was just in. a near miss with a deer yesterday and I was definitely zoned out, because the only two moments I remember was something brown moving to my right and the next thing I knew I was almost stopped with ABS working overtime.
I hit a deer a month ago and I didn’t even stop or swerve. I just kept on going till I got home. Called my insurance company and the total to have it fixed is $8,100.00. I’ll have my car again in 3 days (fixed).
I was driving with my family to California, (wife, baby girl and my brother)at 1:30 in the morning I was talking to my wife trying to stay awake when a Deer ran in front of our vehicle, I Only remember Swirling trying not to hit it, I was going at 70 miles per hour, we lost control for a seconds but the car stabilize again, we have a Hummer H3, it the most horrible experience I had Driving...
These deers, all deers needs to be tracked and monitored. If it passes certain places which goes to the roads, it should be shocked. I hit a deer and also avoided a car-deer crash luckily by swerving. I originally thought hitting the deer head on would be more deadly since what if it's antlers crashed into my face. I guess car's windshield are designed to factor into these deer hits to be more protective.
Myself ,my wife and my daughter combined, have had over 40 impacts with deer and literally hundreds of close calls. Some of those close calls literally brushing the dirt off our cars.
It is deer haven here no way we can slow down to 20-30 mile an hour we won't get anywhere or get nothing done . It would certainly help if the county mowed the roadsides earlier in the year. But they like to wait until after July so it doesn't grow back.
@@DanielWilson-li3qx 40 impacts is indicative, I'm sorry for your former experiences.. *I always MAKE A SCHEDULE THAT ALLOWS ME TIME & suggest 40-45MPH MAX in areas KNOWN TO BE DEER CROSSING HEAVY. I've made point since hitting a deer with a bicycle (🚲) to not let it happen again. I've WALKED with wild whitetail deer for over 40 years, driven only for 35, but my only vehicle deer collision was on a bicycle..of all things. I was racing to dive down a hill and knew I was approaching a deer crossing..long story short, surprised a doe I hadn't accommodated for, she bolted across, I hit her in mid-backend, & we both got spun down road.. 40 impacts is excessive.. learning their transit behaviors/timing is literally as easy as developing situational awareness and applying knowledge that is readily gained. @ 40 accidents, I hate to say you are doing something wrong if I can drive around in full presence and both pick out potential and present situations that could developing an impact, and the many summer does eating on roadside. *DEER ARE EATING THE WEEDS, NOT THE GRASS on the roadsides. They are extremely forb (weed) centric, and roads are a good[traffic]barrier..the wildlife barrier/debris fence that borders highways also reassure deer, which feel safe due to the impedance to following predators. Deer hear and feel vehicles approaching rather than watch, because nothing matters till contact close(eating deer are "working"), too close for comfort.. & they are likely to "check" the threat or try to bound over as if a predator or be bounced into threat by avoiding another deer.. 30-50 feet from roadside deer can judge your approach better than roadside..if on multi lane highway, driving in leftmost lane away from saturation of deer, & where I have better down road visibility, I have avoided countless impacts. Driving winding back roads, visibility is shortened DRASTICALLY & MANDATES slowing down. I know I have an advantage knowing whitetail behavior & language, recognizing how they operate in their environment as it overlaps ours.. But application of my full situational awareness is my hardest effort..it is a discipline of scan pattern and recognition/anticipation based upon environmental elements. Take it a piece @ a time, & move foreward with your progress & you will feel a sense of "reopened" understanding and surety rather than reaction. I have had 0 motor vehicle-deer impacts, and we have a very healthy deer population here where I live..agriculture, wetlands, and light suburbia mix together..(deer heaven) Deer population needs to be kept in check too, but people would rather be killed in their car on a highway as a result of deer incident than see hunting balance out the lack of predation. Deer fawns are a primary foodsource to predators, so withdeer but inadequate predation, numbers EXPLODE..EXPONENENTIALLY🤯 My Zoe has had roughly a dozen fawns & lost perhaps 3 to traffic before breeding age..say 4-5 does survive over her 8 years, she and 3 does keep having twins or trips..I'm glad she pushes them "out of town" in a literal sense, away from traffic & people
@@DanielWilson-li3qx *I'm curious what region in which you live, I live in upstate NNY on the USRT81 corridor between Tug Hill Plateau and Lake Ontario..to the south in the Fingerlakes area, we have a DETRIMENTAL deer overpopulation problem. I'm looking for better understanding of others' perspectives & also looking for an effective way to share my gained knowledge & experience..it's kept me out of a lot of potential pain or worse ..
This guy got it spot on I didn’t do any driver classes or anything but it was around 11:50pm Jan.5 2023 I was driving on the interstate and someone wanted to race so we raced I was winning by about two car distances and a deer jumped the wall in front of me I was going 125 barely tapped break, hit it the hood flew into my windshield and I had to avoid the car behind me as he/she avoided me and then I was safely able to roll to the side of the road, zero injuries at 125 (lucky deer didn’t go through windshield)
Hey I saw a few deer 🦌 crashes and cars hitting deer well just like I changey car to a Tahoe or charger when I need to become a cop. I put deer wistels on my car ok it will scare away the deer and make them not run on the road. So sometime u cannot afford to buy some or put them on u can put them on any car and it will wistels and work ok find a method or how can u let people know that will be a possibility to use or have some one put it on cars one by one I'll leave that up to u to do k
Have some one stand on the side of the freeway and do it how they operate to put something on a vichel or car and when they pass by they should hear it wisile and work k andale a noise make sure it worked and keep everyone safe that gets on the highway k thanks let everyone know
The motto here in Iowa is ,Do not veer for deer. The buck is not hanging back to the rear ,protecting the rear ,in case there are predators. The buck is playing it smart ,letting the fawns and does, be the "Guinea pigs" and go out front in case there are predators.
I’ve been in two car crashes once with a deer and once with ice. Nobody died in either, thank god. I’ve had trama for about three years, I get terrible anxiety when I’m in a car, especially in icy conditions.
Its getting a little worse now, I cant take my eyes off the road even if someone else is driving, Im proud of you for staying strong though!@@mr.brenman2132
I just totaled my 2015 Mazda3 driving home from work. An Elk just ran into the side of my car as I was driving past. There was nothing I could even do. There's no lights on the road, no barriers, no signs, nothing... but the speed is 55 mph. He just ran right into my side.
To heck with the tailgater. Today the tailgater gets too much simpathy. We here in America have a rule for sppeed vs distance you should look it up. A women lost her life yes but if that tailgater was at the proper distance it could have been avoided.
Oh I see, that ford must've stopped for the deer but the chrysler suv did not have time to realize/stop.
Two years ago I was coming home from work at 2am and I was in a rural area. I was going 60 mph when I saw a deer to my left running towards the road from a field. I slammed on the brakes and still hit it anyway. I was able to keep the car straight. No one was behind me and the damage wasn’t terribly bad. The deer died. If I had never braked, I would had totaled my car since it’s a older car (2009 Chrysler 300). I have hit a deer twice and one happened in November before Thanksgiving and the recent one happened four days before Christmas.
He is absolutely right. A few days ago, when I was driving home, a small deer darted out in front of my car suddenly. It came out so fast and suddenly, I had no choice but to collide head on and take the damage. Surprisingly, not only did I drive my car safely home, but I didn't receive not even a scratch on my body. Thank God.
Same thing happened to me. I was in the far right lane on a six lane local interstate. Deer crossed the three eastbound lanes, the median, and then the two westbound lanes before I got to it. Totaled my Kia Optima. I didn't even see it, just saw a flash of brown by my left headlight before I ran over it. Tore up the engine and stuff underneath. Didn't hurt me any other than aggravating my back issues. Got a Ram 1500 now.
@@vkeitt21 thank god you walked away from the accident safe with minor back injuries. I remember years ago, a coworker I worked with hit a deer in her SUV, and she was severely injured and stayed in the hospital for about three months. Best tip for when you can't avoid a deer accident. Take the impact and avoid swerving off the road. Many fatal accidents from deer collisions occur when people swerve off the road and either hit a tree or flip over from a hill, ditch, etc.
@@vkeitt21 Did you car insurance pay you for the accident?
@@missk8185 I had gap insurance on the Kia, so I wound up getting money back that I could put down on my truck.
Never be afraid to hit your brakes. What happens behind you is the responsibility of the person behind you. Never swerve tho.
@E. N true, but you ultimately have limited control over what that person does i.e. following too close.
@@TidalWaveDan
Dumb advice. Before you brake you should always look in your mirror and then make your decision.
@@thud9797okay
My husband was in a car accident due to a deer there was no signs of deers and he ended up on the hospital in alabama his fractured 5discs on his back needed surgery.. his body is not the same
Remember this as well--hitting a deer is a comprehensive claim (if you have the coverage). Swerving and hitting a tree, guardrail, or anything else is a collision claim.
I hit a deer around 2006 in the gobles mi area. My drunken brother tried convincing everyone I made up the story despite the deer fur all over the damage to the vehicle.
Randy Rand...never swerve never brake????? Maybe if the average driver is as mindless as that advice is. I've avoided several crashes by slowing down ( braking). Bad advice from a professional who is teaching others how to avoid an accident. There must be a better catch phrase than never swerve never brake.
@johnnyXx4321 I respectfully disagree. I do think he meant not to swerve or break from the moment you see it. Countless times I have seen deer cross in front of me, and my initial reaction is to brake before I ever hit them. If I have a tailgater behind me, I'm in trouble, and so is the tailgater. Sometimes there is nothing you can do, no matter what. The only time (thankfully) that I was ever involved in a deer accident, the deer crossed the freeway median in the dark and slammed into my driver side door. I had no advanced warning whatsoever, and no time to brake or swerve. Thank God no other cars were near me in that dark night.
@@LPeskoran I was driving at night and saw deer crossing the road. I remembered in driver's training not to brake but I did slow down (manual transmission car). One last deer darted into my car and luckily it only grazed the back and I only lost a hubcap. Could have lost my life if I would have braked and/or swerved and hit a tree, house, or another car.
@Imafraid Jumitebeeinnagang I would have braked if I had the time, but it takes more than 1 second to even react and the deer shot in front of me in less time than that.
I plowed threw mine. Slammed on the brakes but kept it straight, ricocheted me into a fieldbut only a little over 1k in damages. Deer dead, car is still drives to this day.
Why don't you feel sorry for the deer you murdered?
You're lucky
@@sachinraghavan4556 The deer murdered itself. He said he slammed on the brakes?
WOW! How is this guy qualified to teach anything ? He never even thought to mention that it might be a good idea to slow down when you're in a deer crossing area.
In my state they even have signs warning you of the danger.
Some places are all deer crossing country. My hit was on a 4 lane highway plus two pullover lanes on each side.
Deer crossing signs are only good for city-country places. Those signs will not work in the wild rural. Deers are all over the place..in the least expected place.
This guy does know ABS brakes, doesn't he? True, you don't swerve as speed, but if you are on a road where you know there is no one behind you. Brake pedal to the floor (let the ABS system work) keep the car in a straight line and brace for impact.
Axelsanx plus ESC helps avoid loss of control due to swerving. People honestly need to know what their cars safety systems are and compensate accordingly
I was just in. a near miss with a deer yesterday and I was definitely zoned out, because the only two moments I remember was something brown moving to my right and the next thing I knew I was almost stopped with ABS working overtime.
I hit a deer a month ago and I didn’t even stop or swerve. I just kept on going till I got home. Called my insurance company and the total to have it fixed is $8,100.00. I’ll have my car again in 3 days (fixed).
Deer season is everyday in my neck of the woods.
No deers were harmed in this video
I was driving with my family to California, (wife, baby girl and my brother)at 1:30 in the morning I was talking to my wife trying to stay awake when a Deer ran in front of our vehicle, I Only remember Swirling trying not to hit it, I was going at 70 miles per hour, we lost control for a seconds but the car stabilize again, we have a Hummer H3, it the most horrible experience I had Driving...
Glad you and your family are ok. A deer running into the back end of my car at night was one of the scariest experiences I had.
These deers, all deers needs to be tracked and monitored. If it passes certain places which goes to the roads, it should be shocked. I hit a deer and also avoided a car-deer crash luckily by swerving. I originally thought hitting the deer head on would be more deadly since what if it's antlers crashed into my face. I guess car's windshield are designed to factor into these deer hits to be more protective.
Myself ,my wife and my daughter combined, have had over 40 impacts with deer and literally hundreds of close calls. Some of those close calls literally brushing the dirt off our cars.
Slow down
40? You need to adjust how you drive my friend.
It is deer haven here no way we can slow down to 20-30 mile an hour we won't get anywhere or get nothing done . It would certainly help if the county mowed the roadsides earlier in the year. But they like to wait until after July so it doesn't grow back.
@@DanielWilson-li3qx 40 impacts is indicative, I'm sorry for your former experiences..
*I always MAKE A SCHEDULE THAT ALLOWS ME TIME & suggest 40-45MPH MAX in areas KNOWN TO BE DEER CROSSING HEAVY.
I've made point since hitting a deer with a bicycle (🚲) to not let it happen again.
I've WALKED with wild whitetail deer for over 40 years, driven only for 35, but my only vehicle deer collision was on a bicycle..of all things. I was racing to dive down a hill and knew I was approaching a deer crossing..long story short, surprised a doe I hadn't accommodated for, she bolted across, I hit her in mid-backend, & we both got spun down road..
40 impacts is excessive.. learning their transit behaviors/timing is literally as easy as developing situational awareness and applying knowledge that is readily gained.
@ 40 accidents, I hate to say you are doing something wrong if I can drive around in full presence and both pick out potential and present situations that could developing an impact, and the many summer does eating on roadside.
*DEER ARE EATING THE WEEDS, NOT THE GRASS on the roadsides. They are extremely forb (weed) centric, and roads are a good[traffic]barrier..the wildlife barrier/debris fence that borders highways also reassure deer, which feel safe due to the impedance to following predators.
Deer hear and feel vehicles approaching rather than watch, because nothing matters till contact close(eating deer are "working"), too close for comfort.. & they are likely to "check" the threat or try to bound over as if a predator or be bounced into threat by avoiding another deer..
30-50 feet from roadside deer can judge your approach better than roadside..if on multi lane highway, driving in leftmost lane away from saturation of deer, & where I have better down road visibility, I have avoided countless impacts. Driving winding back roads, visibility is shortened DRASTICALLY & MANDATES slowing down.
I know I have an advantage knowing whitetail behavior & language, recognizing how they operate in their environment as it overlaps ours..
But application of my full situational awareness is my hardest effort..it is a discipline of scan pattern and recognition/anticipation based upon environmental elements.
Take it a piece @ a time, & move foreward with your progress & you will feel a sense of "reopened" understanding and surety rather than reaction.
I have had 0 motor vehicle-deer impacts, and we have a very healthy deer population here where I live..agriculture, wetlands, and light suburbia mix together..(deer heaven)
Deer population needs to be kept in check too, but people would rather be killed in their car on a highway as a result of deer incident than see hunting balance out the lack of predation. Deer fawns are a primary foodsource to predators, so withdeer but inadequate predation, numbers EXPLODE..EXPONENENTIALLY🤯
My Zoe has had roughly a dozen fawns & lost perhaps 3 to traffic before breeding age..say 4-5 does survive over her 8 years, she and 3 does keep having twins or trips..I'm glad she pushes them "out of town" in a literal sense, away from traffic & people
@@DanielWilson-li3qx *I'm curious what region in which you live, I live in upstate NNY on the USRT81 corridor between Tug Hill Plateau and Lake Ontario..to the south in the Fingerlakes area, we have a DETRIMENTAL deer overpopulation problem.
I'm looking for better understanding of others' perspectives & also looking for an effective way to share my gained knowledge & experience..it's kept me out of a lot of potential pain or worse ..
Ive hit one with a chevy uplander and i managed to fix it up
Hit the dam deer. Dont go to opposite lane.
Then how did a deer did not move out the way when I used my horn
At the rate sound travels and with speed he wont hear it, he will be blinded by the lights and run into them
This guy got it spot on I didn’t do any driver classes or anything but it was around 11:50pm Jan.5 2023 I was driving on the interstate and someone wanted to race so we raced I was winning by about two car distances and a deer jumped the wall in front of me I was going 125 barely tapped break, hit it the hood flew into my windshield and I had to avoid the car behind me as he/she avoided me and then I was safely able to roll to the side of the road, zero injuries at 125 (lucky deer didn’t go through windshield)
So the deer crashed to avoid the car?
8 deer in 10 minute yesterday in québec
There's a scream of a woman in minute 1:05
If you use earphone you could hear it
Hey I saw a few deer 🦌 crashes and cars hitting deer well just like I changey car to a Tahoe or charger when I need to become a cop. I put deer wistels on my car ok it will scare away the deer and make them not run on the road. So sometime u cannot afford to buy some or put them on u can put them on any car and it will wistels and work ok find a method or how can u let people know that will be a possibility to use or have some one put it on cars one by one I'll leave that up to u to do k
Have some one stand on the side of the freeway and do it how they operate to put something on a vichel or car and when they pass by they should hear it wisile and work k andale a noise make sure it worked and keep everyone safe that gets on the highway k thanks let everyone know
The motto here in Iowa is ,Do not veer for deer.
The buck is not hanging back to the rear ,protecting the rear ,in case there are predators. The buck is playing it smart ,letting the fawns and does, be the "Guinea pigs" and go out front in case there are predators.
How about we just not follow cars too closely. That'll help with a lot of crashes.
Animals need more protection than this.
I’ve been in two car crashes once with a deer and once with ice. Nobody died in either, thank god. I’ve had trama for about three years, I get terrible anxiety when I’m in a car, especially in icy conditions.
I'm in the same boat man. I've been in bad car accidents. I'm still getting over my fear of driving but I'm pushing ahead. How are you doing now?
Its getting a little worse now, I cant take my eyes off the road even if someone else is driving, Im proud of you for staying strong though!@@mr.brenman2132