Don't You Hate It When This Happens?

[65Bel]

It's hard for me to imagine that much damage from a relatively small looking deer. But then, we don't have deer running around much, this close to L.A., so I don't have a lot of reference.

That's just the front half of that deer laying in the road. My hunch is the roof cut her in half and the back half is inside the truck? Imagine what a mess that had to have been!

 

[sam dupont]

Working at a refinery in Casper Wyoming, I traveled past a solid Scout sitting in a shelter belt every weekend. Finally left a note, the guy called me, and I bought it. That week I built a tow bar set-up from scrap laying around at work. That Friday after work, I hooked on to that Scout and flat towed it behind my pickup. I was just west of South Dakota, pitch black night, on a nice highway half way over a long bridge when this fat old doe saunters out in front of me. She kept walking, totally unaware as I smoothly crossed over into the opposing lane and went by her nose nearing the center line at 70 miles per hour. I was waiting for a Bang! when she woke up and jumped into the Scout, but it never happened. It was too dark to see behind me, but I imagined her doing a back flip.

 

[Cranky]

Does getting married for the 2nd time 35 years ago count??

 

[Budnicks]

I hit a deer 1st & a pig with the same truck (Ford 78 F250 4x4)
about like 6 months apart
deer took out the grill, hood & a pass. fender

the pig took out the whole front body & radiator
bent the tierods & drag link, bent the front axle housing
I took all the good stuff off the truck & totaled it
wasn't worth fixing again
&
if it wasn't a lifted truck, with big tires
it'd come inside probably, hit high, mid-jump I suspect
I never say it
I certainly felt it
& then I ran it over to boot
both the deer & the pig ran out from the forest
(within a few miles of each other, almost the same spot)
at night like 30 or so miles above Georgetown Ca.
up by Lake Edison, by Wentworth springs
ElDorado country going toward the Rubicon 4x4 trail
before you get to Desolation Wilderness

 

[VFilms]

No pictures, but some years back I was T-boned by 2 guys who had just robbed a bank. I had just restored a 67 Corvair, they had just robbed a bank in a stolen pickup truck. During their getaway they raced through an intersection and slammed into my driver's door. I was pushed about 70 feet back into the front of a house. As I entered the intersection, out of the corner of my eye I saw the grille of the pickup and laid down across the seats. I remember the impact and when I came to a stop against the house I looked up at where the windshield use to be and someone - one of the bank robbers - said, 'are you okay?' I said, 'I think I hurt my back.' He said, 'don't worry, the Police are on the way', and left. I pulled myself up with the steering wheel, which was now on the passenger's side of the car, and waited.
I spent 3 months in traction in the hospital with compression fractures to my spine.
Years later I learned the 2 guys who had robbed the bank where part of an anarchist organization that had blown up the IBM building near Westchester, NY and other buildings. They were robbing banks to buy explosives. One was eventually caught after he killed a NJ State Trooper, and the other was killed in a shootout with Police.
Probably should have stayed in bed that day.

 

[BDF6]

Hope you or whoever owned the car was able to buy a nice Mopar with the insurance money.

That was my wife's car. We were going to donate it to a friend but got $100 & it hauled off instead.
Didn't want a bump in premiums so didn't make a claim.
Car had 250k & was going to need some work (don't remember what now) so just scrapped it.
What miffed me was having to take care of the tree.
AGAIN!
4 big oaks just fell over at our place last year.
Here's a couple of 'those' days:

3 hours later

 

[dan juhasz]

Deer Accidentally Hits Camper Trailer While Crossing Road - 1126513 - YouTube

 

[Budnicks]

I think it was Ron White who said;"If you could put headlights on a bullet, a deer would jump in front of it!"

 

[Budnicks]

 

[Budnicks]

 

[moparedtn]

Starting this thread as a place for everyone to share their pics and stories of those "Wish I'd never got out of bed" days:

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P.S. Not my Durango or pic.

Was it your deer?

 

[65Bel]

Was it your deer?
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His name was B-Pillar and he is deerly missed.

 

[Cranky]

When I got married the 2nd time, 'she' wanted to be married on Valentines' day....and since my divorce from my first wife took so long to become final, we had to drive 150 miles to La. from the Houston area in order to get married since you have to be divorced for at least 30 days in Texas before getting married again. I also was sick with the flu during all of this. That wasn't the worse sign that I should have stayed in bed though.

 

[Brandy]

That 98 Buick Regal that got hit at Ft Eustis got hit a total of 8 times by deer. I sold it here in Vermont with the dents still in it. Yankees will buy a SC car in a heart beat. No rust. I still see it around occasionally, still dented up too.lol.

 

[BDF6]

My buddy at work hit a deer in his new Toyota PU just down the street where I live.
It munched his left front pretty bad.
Those deer are always trying to get in my garden and have climbed on to the deck to eat our plants.
The day after he hit the thing I told him to come back and drive back & forth in front of my house 'cause he missed a couple of them.
He didn't think that was as funny as I did.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

My 2015 Ford Transit has had 4 windshields 1 goose, 2 turkeys, and one deer.

 

[cosgig]

This damage to my truck this past June was caused by a trailer coming off of a truck coming the other way, and crossing into my lane. I veered over to the shoulder but the trailer followed me into the ditch. I was all the way up on the bank next to a farm fence when it hit me. Had I stayed in my lane, it probably would’ve missed me, but I couldn’t take the chance of being skewered by the tongue of the trailer, or hitting it head on. The other driver failed to clamp down the ball lock, and it only had one safety chain, which he didn’t hook up because it was too short. He admitted fault, and got a ticket or 2, but all was well, and we stood on the side of the road for almost an hour chatting while we waited for the police to arrive. $6k in damage to my truck. I’m still a little Leary when I see trucks with trailers coming at me, especially landscape trailers.

 

[JackR]

Wife and I were being followed by brother in law and sister in law in their Ford windstar van. We were in a rural Az reservation where laws are different. Came into an area where a bunch of cows were along side the road. Wife says “do they Run in front of cars” I then looked in the rear view and there was a cow upside down on the hood of the brother in laws windstar. We both stopped, cow slid off got up and walked away like nothing happened. Van wasn’t so lucky fender hood and windshield but still drivable. Got out of there fast as on the reservation probably would have had to buy the cow.

 

[ckessel]

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Did you have to get permits for tree removal? You would around here.

The problem with the damn deer is their instinct to jump in the air when they sense the immediate closeness and danger of the vehicle. I've seen them standing still on the shoulder of the road here in Illinois, as well as Missouri, and just as a vehicle is about to pass them they startle and dart in front of it. Have also learned that if you see one deer run across the road in front of you, slow down because often there are one, two or more coming behind it. When one of them comes running out of a field of tall corn there's no time to react, it's just WHAM in a split second.

One of the reasons I want to install a FLIR system on my 65.

 

[dadsbee]

This is a good thing around here..... but not so much for the owner !