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Originally Posted by rockfan4

I saw this on the news the other day. A pickup hit a deer on I-35 in Forest Lake MN, the airbags deploy, and the truck shuts down. The driver can't get it going again, so she and her 12 year old daughter abandon the pickup in the middle lane, flashers on. Shortly afterwards, a inattentive truck driver slams into the stalled pickup. Is there something else the driver could have done?

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/stalled-pickup-bursts-into-flames-after-being-rear-ended/89-3987d6d6-bd00-4831-a6a2-eb637d2b09a1

Sad story...but thank goodness they abandoned it. If they'd stayed inside the disabled pickup...

Probably overall better the car disabled when airbags go, but in this case, I don't know. Hitting deer is pretty common..can't count the number of times I've come close to nailing one.