[Closed] Deer Near Miss

Not hit one, but been very very close! Driving up the A9 to Aviemore at around midnight at a speed a little above the national speed limit (dual carriageway) and a bloody great stag jumped over the barrier just in front of us! Was close enough that I could've smacked its @rse on the way past!

Needless to say, I needed fresh undies afterwards.

I believe that if you properly skelp one, they send out a man with a mop to pick you up. I'm sure google can demonstrate

Collision: report it to the police. Local wildlife groups, vets etc may also be interested (for survey purposes).

If dead, call CFH and he will eat it for you.

Most police forces have a callout list for humane dispatch, with the control room phoning a local volunteer from the list (open firearms certificate, appropriate weapons & experience)

Lucky!

I hit one at 50mph 3 years back. She did a kamakazie jump over a fence right in front of me in the dark but fortunatly had landed and was trying avoiding action by the time I hit it (1 sec later).

She magaged to do me out of a bonnet, bumper, wing, headlight and a ncd. Of course she had no insurance!

The really strange thing was even with the speed I hit her and her spinning across the road legs up, she still got up and limped into the trees. I could hear her twitching initially and tried to find her but if I had I dont know what I'd have done.

I'm sure she was dead by the time I'd collected the debris from the road and drove on so didnt feel the need to phone anyone.

My old man is a vet and a stalker and often responds to these here in devon, in fact we havent been stalking for two years as there is so much roadkill in the freezer.

I was chatting to a bloke down the road a couple of weeks ago with a tricked out Racing Puma, and he'd recently clipped a small deer and smashed the carbonfiber splitter he'd fitted to the front, and a previous car suffered £4000 worth of front end and engine damage after he hit a deer at somewhere north of the legal limit. Three young lads from my town were killed over Christmas after the driver, brother of one of the deceased, swerved to avoid a deer and went side on into a tree.

nearly did that on the south loop at whinlatter last Tues night very nearly shat myself about 1ft in it

I spent couple of years in Canada with trips into the Rockies most weekends during the winter.

I didn't have any deer strikes myself but on a number of occasions I drove past fresh carcasses (steaming) that had once been deer until they met the likes of this:

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I doubt the drivers even noticed they had hit anything.

The route to Fernie was well forested for the last hour or so. Both of us had our eyes peeled for deer leaping out into the road. Where there was one there was always many following.

I hit one doing 70 mph 2 yrs ago on the way to barnard castle at 5.30 on a sun morning going to work. It ran out into the road from the field, jumped over the car in front and came down on the windscreen of mine. I was waiting to overtake the car in front but another car was coming tother way. If ide have over taken the car it wouldnt have happened. But cos i was hanging back it had me. Totally crushed the roof in. I just hit the brakes and ducked into footwell. Glass everywhere. Stereo even came out! The deer landed in the hedge ont other side of road and was split open. The car that was coming the other way that i was waiting for was the local gamekeeper! He had it for his dogs. Car was written off and i lost 2 days at work 🙁 informed the polive but wasnt required as it was a wild animal and no one was accountable. Lost all my no claims and now have an 'at fault' on my insurance claims 🙁 oh and a shit car now too, cos the pay out was so little and i already had a loan for the car that was totalled!

I too hit one at 70 some years back.. I still feel lucky to be alive and glad I was alone in the car. It nipped out and before I could react went up the bonet and through the windscreen, just missing me and taking out the passenger seat bits of the rear seat and the rear window on it's way past!
Insurance was crap and had an 'at fault' record. The deer didn't make it and I went to hospital to get loads of glass removed from me. I tend to drive slowly at night now, and eat lots of venison 😉

Driving through a stormy night near Balmoral, dozens of twinkly lights in my headlights as came over a blind summit had me convinced I was about to drive straight into a river. I'd skidded to a halt wondering if I'd ended up at a ford or if a river had burst its banks when bits of the twinkly river got up and casually wandered off. A whole twinkly-eyed herd had decided to have a little lie down in the road.

I've hit a small roe deer at about 60 mph and it did about £2000 of damage! Usual body work, air intake parts, front left suspension wrecked (wheel knocked back about 3") and the Mondeo stupidly has the fuel injection ECU hidden behind the left-front wheel arch. This was also wrecked! Lucky that it wasn't a write-off...

The deer was dead by the time I walked to it. Got taken to garage by RAC. I also found it annoying having to accept blame as I really think the deer was to blame and have fruitlessly argued this with my insurance company!

nearly hit one on a bike last year, got within 6" between my handlebar & it's hind quarters, still not sure who shat themselves most.
More recently enjoyed some roadkill stew at a friends house, he found one still warm in the road, stuck it in his pickup & left it hanging outside the butchers next door (handy neighbours), other neighbour pops his head out & tells him to let the blood or it'll ruin overnight, the long & the short of it was they didn't have a sharp enough knife between them so resorted to chopping it's head off & splitting it open with a chainsaw....I'm lead to believe "messy" didn't quite paint the full picture 😯

I came close to hitting Legend's stag on the A9 just south of Dalwhinnie on the dual carriageway. Driving south near midnight with dipped eadlights, the stag stepped off the kerb onto the road. I swerved instinctively and still dont quite know how we didnt hit each other.

I hit one at about 20mph and still managed to kill it when I was on holiday in Utah. Luckily there was very little damage to the car but still had to get a police report for insurance purposes (rental car).
Felt bad about it at the time but the next day we noticed deer carcases every couple of miles along the same stretch of road. I guess that's another reason large 4*4's are common in the US - less likely to be damaged by dumb animals jumping out in front of you...

Had one in-between the car and caravan on the A74 a good few years back. Big stag, wrote the caravan off and almost rolled the car as well. Tasted good though 🙂

Hit two things, a fox on edinburgh bypass and a deer near Aviemore.

The fox went through the bumper and radiator.... £1700 repair. Interesting that there is a solid concrete divider on the bypass now, wonder if it makes a difference.... maybe traps animals rather than letting them cross.

The deer was hit whilst I was on a course at Glenmore Lodge. Shoved it in the van and went to Coylum bridge pub where I asked about it. I was told it was pregnant and the landlord would deal with it. Aye, right.....

Took it back to the lodge where George Reid grollocked it outside the office in the snow then Alan Fife bought it... result! looked like a murder scene outside next morning....

Havent hit one but on a ride just before Xmas was riding the last road section and came across some blood and about 15-20 meters later the back end of a deer. Not sure where the front end went but must have made a mess of someones car!

Blackbush section of the A30. Was doing about 50mph when it came out of nowhere.

Yeah, right. Like [i]anyone[/i] does less than about 90 down there!
I think 135 is about tops for me..... 😉

That said, if you take the Fleet road from the Exersley cross road just to the west of there, I hit a phesant at about 70-80 on a motorbike on my way to work (Quarry next to Blackbushe) and arrived covered in phesant guts and feathers!

Hit a deer and smash your car to bits = wild animal owned by nobody.

Shoot a deer for the pot = wild animal owned by a wealthy landowner 😐

I know there are 'good' reasons for this but it has always bugged me a bit.

So far managed to avoid hitting any over the years despite many lose shaves around Cluanie, Achnasheen and Glencoe.

Shoot a deer for the pot = wild animal owned by a wealthy landowner

It's only owned by the landowner if you shoot it on his land.
If you run it over on the road its public property. I think the distinction is simple and fair. Do you think other people should have the right to come on to your land and shoot things?

well there was a huge stag walking around Sandhurst High street last night just after midnight. Had to stop the car and let the deer decide what it wanted to do.

On a vaguely related note, I was wondering the other day what happens if you say run over a cat and it survives? Chances are it won't belong to people in the houses closest so you'd then take it to the vet but can you just drop it off for them to deal with? Call me a cheapskate but not sure I'd want to be liable for £100's of vet fees for someone else's cat with suicidal tendencies.

Yeah, right. Like anyone does less than about 90 down there!

OK, it may have been 60mph 😆 It just cost me over 60 quid to fill up the tank with petrol and I always drive as economically as possible until the shock wears off.

well there was a huge stag walking around Sandhurst High street last night just after midnight. Had to stop the car and let the deer decide what it wanted to do.

Oh yeah? No stags in the vicinity, not even at Swinley Forest.

well there was a huge stag walking around Sandhurst High street last night just after midnight.

He may have been after a kabab.

[url= http://deercollisions.co.uk/index.html ]The Deer Collisions project[/url] is looking to gather information about deer strikes to try to identify "hotspots" of incidents across the UK. There is a link to a form to report these.

Shoot a deer for the pot = wild animal owned by a wealthy landowner

It's only owned by the landowner if you shoot it on his land.
If you run it over on the road its public property. I think the distinction is simple and fair. Do you think other people should have the right to come on to your land and shoot things?

It's the same with pheasants, if a pheasant lands in your back garden and you own the shooting rights for your land, you can blow the crap out of it.

Not Canadian geese though, they're protected.