Worst states for deer crashes...

[pwd72s]

Finally, Oregon misses a list...

http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/14/autos/deer_crash/index.htm?section=money_mostpopular

[89911]

Yay, we're number 1. For a related topic, see my deer thread.

[on2wheels52]

I think PA was #1 last year also. Damn forest rats, my biggest fear on a motorcycle. Have hit one, for some reason the gods allowed only the most minor damage to the bike and none to me.
Jim

[LakeCleElum]

The country's leading expert on motorcycle safety was killed in a collision with a deer in Texas this year. I ride about 15,000 miles a year and share Jim's concern...

[Aerkuld]

It's just damned irresponsible letting them drive!

[bell]

i always make it a point to put about 6 deer whistles on the 911 when i make a run up into the allegheny mts. in PA, believe it or not they do work.
last time i hit a deer was in '91 with my dodge van......the critter wrapped itself around my rear axle about 3 times.....took a very high pressure pressure washer to remove the carcas.....the smell was terrible

[IROC]

Originally posted by bell
i always make it a point to put about 6 deer whistles on the 911 when i make a run up into the allegheny mts. in PA, believe it or not they do work.
last time i hit a deer was in '91 with my dodge van......the critter wrapped itself around my rear axle about 3 times.....took a very high pressure pressure washer to remove the carcas.....the smell was terrible

The Ohio State police tried these whistles and found that the cars with them had more hits that the cars without. They concluded that the whistles attracted deer. :>)

Mike

[Aerkuld]

How do they get the seatbelt over their antlers? Or is that why deer collisions are so bad?

[artplumber]

They are pretty stupid. I'm looking closely at one standing on the side of the road as I am driving by. The thing waits until I'm just about to pass and have no avoidance time before it jumps in front of the car! (Washington state - I can't believe that the Northwest didn't score higher on that list)

[bell]

Originally posted by IROC
The Ohio State police tried these whistles and found that the cars with them had more hits that the cars without. They concluded that the whistles attracted deer. :>)

Mike

interesting.....
maybe it's my 130watt narvas which make them run in the other dirrection

[charleskieffner]

i'll take a deer anyday over hitting an ELK! last time we went elk hunting in sw colorado saw first hand what a bull elk will do to a ford f-250 crew cab. both guys from texas were killed instantly. the truck cab looked as if you had dumped (2) 55 gallons of blood over it! it was BAD! dont EVER want to see that again! entire elk landed in cab!

in arizona the WORST stretch of highways..............I-17 from munds park to flagstaff. and hwy 260 from star valley all the way to showlow az. very very dangerous @ night or dawn/dusk hours.

[legion]

We're number 3!
We're number 3!

[azasadny]

I had to drive about 120 miles the other day to a meat processor to pick up a side of beef we had ordered. On the way to/from the place, I saw at least 6 dead deer at the roadside! My father is taking my son deer hunting this weekend and I certainly hope they get their limit! Driving at dawn/dusk scares the heck out of me because that's when the deer are most active and you can't see them until it's too late!

[Brian 162]

I drove to Florida in July and I couldn't believe the number of dead deers at the side of the interstate in Penn.

[Zef]

That's a good place for deer bow hunting....

[89911]

Related story in the news today.

Couple severely injured in deer attack
Thursday, November 16, 2006

By Lillian Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette



When state police responded to a call about an aggressive deer at a rural Clinton County home yesterday morning, they figured the creature would be long gone.

Instead, they found a six-point whitetail buck straddling a screaming woman in her back yard, repeatedly goring her face, neck and chest. A man lay near by, with multiple wounds, in and out of consciousness.

Cpl. Todd A. Brian and Trooper Stephen E. Wilcox of the Lamar barracks in the north central Pennsylvania county responded to a 911 call at 7:40 a.m. The caller was a woman who said a buck had blocked her door so that she could not leave the house to feed her cats, then attacked her housemate who went to shoo the deer away.

"She was inside at the time. We responded, assuming by the time we got there the deer would be gone," said Cpl. Brian.

When they arrived, five or six minutes after the 911 call, "we pull up, and immediately hear her screaming. There's a lot of equipment, farm machinery, rubble all around this house, and we weren't sure where she was at. We split up -- we were trying to find her, assuming she was screaming because of injuries to him.

"But I get to the back yard and find her pinned to the ground by a large buck. He had his front feet straddling her, one on each side of her torso."

The buck was goring the woman in the chest, neck and face, he said.

"Obviously I had to do something to stop it. But even from 8 or 10 feet I didn't want to shoot the deer -- his upper body was right down by her chest. And I wasn't sure exactly where Trooper Wilcox was. So I picked up the left horn, I pulled it toward me on the left side and that got the buck up high enough off her that I could get a shot. I immediately started shooting it in the chest. It took off and ran almost directly into Trooper Wilcox," who had come around from a different side of the house. "He shot it several more times and put it down."

The victims, Linda Yost and Frank Rishel, have lived together on the rural property for many years, Cpl. Brian said. He said he believed Mr. Rishel is in his 60s and Ms. Yost in her 50s.

The victims were badly injured -- "you have six big bony points like that, that keep driving into someone's face," said Cpl. Brian. "Both had multiple puncture wounds, gore wounds and severe facial injuries." Ms. Yost's eyes were badly injured.

The troopers wanted to transport Mr. Rishel and Ms. Yost by medical helicopter, but fog made that impossible. They were taken to Lock Haven Hospital. A hospital spokeswoman said she was not at liberty to release any information.

Pennsylvania Game Commission officials were investigating the apparently unprovoked attack.

A commission worker took the carcass away. Although the buck appeared healthy, if will be checked for rabies and other diseases. Cpl. Brian said game officers told him they find two or three rabid deer every year.

"I've never seen anything like it. Nor had the local game officer," said Cpl. Brian. "It's not something you train for."

Commission employee Kenneth Packard noted that deer are in the midst of the rut, which is the fall mating season, and for whatever reason, the buck chose to spar with these people.

"That is not behavior normally associated with wild deer, as they almost invariably keep their distance from people," a commission news release said.

"There is no doubt in my mind that the immediate response and action of Cpl. Brian and Trooper Wilcox saved the lives of the two victims," said Warren "Quig" Stump, Northcentral Region Law Enforcement supervisor for the state game commission.

[hytem]

I don't know why they don't put fencing up on the major highways in deer-dense regions. That would certainly help.

[legion]

Originally posted by hytem
I don't know why they don't put fencing up on the major highways in deer-dense regions. That would certainly help.

They do in Illinois. The deer jump over it, but it does help a little.