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In the UK you are always taught to hit the animal and not swerve to avoid it etc as it's the safest thing to do - unfortunately, that sort of panic swerving, breaking etc to avoid wildlife causes a lot of deaths and injuries every year.
As sad as it is, and unfortunate for the deer - you did the right thing.
Hitting anything that big in a car is a traumatic experience, and not one anyone would choose to do on purpose. I had friends who hit a deer in a car in Scotland and it messed them up - and i mean emotionally too....
This kid deserves no hate whatsoever - all this thread should do is serve as a warning that roads outside of urban areas are dynamic and to expect the unexpected.
deer are so fucking stupid, you see so many dead deer lying on the side of the road around here.
seriously, i cannot feel sorry at all for an animal that sees a highway full of 3000lb chunks of metal going 70 mph and thinks its a good idea to cross.
and whats even worse is when they freeze. i dont understand how they can survive in the wild.
there was one time when i came around a corner and there was a fox in the middle of the road, and literally within less than a second of seeing me he was back in the woods, now theres a smart animal.
ive had a couple encounters with deer, every time i was speeding, probably a good 20 mph over, and i could easily avoid them because i pay attention. but deer do sometimes come out of nowhere, and nomatter how slow you are going and how much you are paing attention you will hit them, it just happens.
yeah but if you can't stop safely.... is what i meant... and that also means not skidding wildly..
in those situations, the safest thing to do is go through the deer... and hope it doesn't come through the windscreen and get you!
That is unfortunately the reality of those situations.
Some kid could of come on here and posted how his friend died swerving to miss a deer and ploughed into a tree instead....
think about it.
seriously. this is such a bad site to talk about speeding on. everyone on here is a fucking hippy but with a gangster attitude (the typical skier). so whenever it comes to anything fun, not economically friendly, or dangerous to animals they are always gonna disagree, and the gangster attitude just makes them impossible to argue with.
