Just remember deer are vicious killer willing to commit suicide to whack people.
Bear are less of an issue.
Deer whacking people count in 2024 = 204 people
Bears whacking people count in 2024 = 9 people
had several very close encounters with deer in my time.. and its not even like all that emergency super duper antilock collision avoidance system on new cars can do much either
like, a thousand pound of meat and bone wait until youre 10 feet away at 50 MPH to....... jump into your car.
yeah no thanks
the windshield cut me in 20 places on my face yet each and every cut was very very very shallow . no stitches and now 28 years later no marks or scars.
But if I am on a highway and see a fucking deer. my heart skips a bit and a shit ton of adrenaline still flows in me.
If my wife was in the car that day she would have got full force of the blow as the deer hit the front passenger side of the window.
it broke its neck on the front passenger hood went up in the air and hit the windshield. The timing was such I saw a black shadow and the windshield exploded.
My foot was on the brake as I was exiting onto an exit ramp. So I slammed the brakes when I was hit. If it had my foot on the gas I would have slammed the gas.
that days was one of the nine lives used up for sure.
(I like to think of myself as a cool cat thus 9 lives)
