2006-11-20 08:35:27 · 11 answers · asked by Djody P 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
it is hard to focus on what you need to do when you know the inevitable is about to happen. Traveling at high speed 65-70 and you spot one coming onto the highway, you have just an instant to make any kind of move.
Most of the time, there is no recourse and you hit it where you hit it and seldom are we ready for it.
The rules my company gave for us, who had to be out at all hours, if it was inevitable that you were going to hit the deer, to try hit as nearly center as possible. Why I don't know, but I guess there is some perfectly good reason.
When I hit the deer, I only had a second before he ran right in front and nailed him on left headlight. Noplace to go, no time to brake, not even a chance of swerving. So I hit him.
Each circumstance is different, but I have found that traveling the same roads all the time, that there are places you will find deer more frequently than others, so adjust for that and slow down.
Deer can and do pop up anywhere. So just be careful.
2006-11-20 19:09:36 · answer #1 · answered by Gnome 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well how are you at gritting your teeth- holding your breath, - & jamming the brakes as hard as you can, and trying to keep the vehicle going in a streight line! This is provided that there is no 'safe way out"! You want to avoid trying to make sharp turns at high speed, - tends to make the real-estate get upside down repeatedly". If you are swerving, and get the deer caught underneath the car, you are going to "loose it".
I did this a week ago last wedsnesday, a full grown deer "leaned" on my front end going about 35mph foreward, (and 50mph "sideweays"). she came across the road from a thicket (not a normal deer crossing area), - and was going so fast that I didn't even see "her" before she was half way across the other lane, - I was clearing a rise in road and was only about 20-25 feet away when I saw it! I guess the deer held it's breath, but never breathed again! Our car got a "black eye" and bruises on right side, eye knocked out on left side (& many more bruises), - plus a "bloody nose" and lost all the teeth! (no more deer!) however the "good eye allowed us to drive home, and the radiator still held water, so the engine was ok! Was going 65 when I saw it, and maybe 50 when it hit! Lucky I had one of those "big cars", or we would probably have had it inside the car with us! As I was still trying to slow down and keep control, the guy behing "flew by" and made sure that the deer was dead by running over it (maybe going 70). As for us, no injuries or bruises (airbags didn't blow), -so all that was hurt is our money account! Technically, it is a total loss, as the car is old enough that it would coast more to get it fixed at a body shop than it would cost to buy another one!
So now "mama" drives around with a banged up car that has headlight tied in (& on) with baling wire to make beam go to proper place! Am looking for "seed to plant and grow" a new one!!
2006-11-20 09:35:49 · answer #2 · answered by guess78624 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever you do, do NOT swerve to try and miss it. You could either end up hitting a tree, rolling over in the ditch or hitting another car which are all way worse than hitting a deer!
Some people say not to slam on your brakes unless you are 100% sure you can stop before you get to the deer. If you slam on the brakes, the front of your car dips down and increases the chances that the deer will smash through your windshield and potentially injure you.
2006-11-20 08:47:37 · answer #3 · answered by Holly H 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Slow down and blow your horn with one long blast to frighten the deer away. Brake firmly when you notice a deer in or near your path, but stay in your lane. Many serious crashes occur when drivers swerve to avoid a deer and hit another vehicle or lose control of their cars.
Don't swerve to avoid hitting a deer. If a collision with the animal seems inevitable, then hit it while maintaining full control of your vehicle. The alternative of swerving into oncoming traffic or a ditch could be even worse.
Only break sharply and stop if there is no danger of being hit by following traffic. Try to come to a stop as far in front of the animals as possible to enable it to leave the roadside without panic.
2006-11-20 08:45:36 · answer #4 · answered by Kristin Pregnant with #4 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hit the deer. Hit your brakes but don't swerve. Practice this when you drive, when you see a squirrel or cat or whatever. We just had a man from our church get killed by swerving, trying to avoid hitting a pheasant. He lost control of his truck and rolled it.
2006-11-20 10:42:50 · answer #5 · answered by Papa John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I rigidity extreme velocity continuously, i stay in no guy's land and the sole different automobile on the line is in many circumstances the extreme-high quality officars who's pulled me over thrice in the final 3 months!!
2016-10-22 10:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
DON'T PANIC.
PUMP BRAKES.
DON'T OVERSTEER.
DON'T SWERVE TO AVOID DEER.--ASKING FOR TROUBLE.
BETTER TO HIT DEER THAN VEHICLE TO LOSE CONTROL
AND HIT DITCH OR OVERTURN.
KEEP STRAIGHT.
MOST DEER WILL MOVE FASTER THAN YOU CAN...AND JUMP HIGHER..
PUMP BRAKES WILL KEEP YOU STRAIGHT AND SLOW DOWN --STAY IN YOUR LANE---HIT DEER IF NEED BE..
BETTER TO HAVE DAMAGE IN A CONTROL WAY THAN IN A OUT OF CONTROLLED WAY...
DITCHES AND WOODS AND OVERTURNING IS BAD-TO WORSE.
2006-11-20 08:47:03 · answer #7 · answered by cork 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Press the Brakes~
2006-11-20 08:38:41 · answer #8 · answered by mike 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont swerve hit it dead center it gives the deer more chance to live
2006-11-20 13:58:59 · answer #9 · answered by blk99civic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully you won't have a cell phone in one hand and a cigarette in the other, if you are paying attention you have your best change at surviving :)
2006-11-20 08:40:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋