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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on November 10, 2005, 07:43:02 PM
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I hit a friggin deer on the way to work.
I drive my 94 Explorer 25 miles to work on mostly 2 lane country back roads. It was right before dawn and I was running close to 70mph. I saw a doe pop out of the tall grass about 100 yards ahead and hit the brakes. She stopped looked at me and darted across.
I got off the brakes and back on the gas when a 2nd doe did the exact same thing only now I was 30 yards away and accelerating. I hit the brakes hard pulling far right and the deer goes for the HO.
I hit her square in the shoulder with the left headlight at 30mph. The major damage was the grill, transmission cooler, bumper and left front fender. I estimate about $2,000 in damage. Naturally I only have liability insurance.
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You gonna have that deer's head on your wall?
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Did you skin and keep the Doe?
Hell I used to take my old 68 Ford Custom out on dirt roads in hunt fer deer crossings... just clip them, go for the back hip and legs, dive outta the car, rope the legs and choke it.... a rag tied around the mouth and into the trunk..can fit 3, almost 4 in the trunk... 5th one in the left passenger seat with a scraf, sunglasses on and a cig danglin out the mouth, that would resemble anyones Mother~in~Law...yer safe!
Be constructive...
Mac
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Sorry to hear that RPM. Check out the junk yards, there's lots of Explorers out there and you'd save a ton if you did the work yourself.
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lets see now
1) you drive a explorer 25 miles to work
2) you were on a 2 lane country road
3) it was dark
4) you were going 70 mph
5) you hit a deer
i'm going to have to get back to you on this.
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Not to make light of it. Bummer about the car, but at least YOU weren't hurt as well. Sheet metal can always be repaired or replaced.
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Your first mistake.
Where there is one deer, there are more. You see one deer by the side of the road, you slow down regardless of whether they are crossing.
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RPM
Does it have a seperate Tranny cooler?
Did the radiator take a hit?
Do you care what it looks like?
Junkyards are the way to go, you can prolly buy another tranny cooler for 50 bucks, the rest grab at a junk yard.
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You are going to eat him......right?
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Originally posted by john9001
lets see now
1) you drive a explorer 25 miles to work
2) you were on a 2 lane country road
3) it was dark
4) you were going 70 mph
5) you hit a deer
i'm going to have to get back to you on this.
? my old boss did stuff like that all the time, without the deer hitting, on range roads...
ÈYou see one deer by the side of the road, you slow down regardless of whether they are crossingÈ
and honk your friggen horn fer gawdsake...
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gonna paint a deer on the door?
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
RPM
Does it have a seperate Tranny cooler?
Did the radiator take a hit?
Do you care what it looks like?
Junkyards are the way to go, you can prolly buy another tranny cooler for 50 bucks, the rest grab at a junk yard.
It has a seperate tranny cooler. The a/c and radiator are a bit dinged, but fine.
I plan on going junkyard hunting for the parts.
Originally posted by lasersailor184
Where there is one deer, there are more.
Except when I have a gun.
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Sorry to hear that RPM. One thing consistent with deer is this: Where there is one deer, there are more, and your chances of striking the first deer you see are not as great as striking the one lurking just behind it.
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Be glad you struck a deer at 30 MPH in your Explorer and not in a Honda Civic.
J_A_B
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Be glad you didnt hit it at 70 mph
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Glad you didn't get hurt.
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Boy alotta glad in this thread.
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classic loose deuce
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Dinger's got it right, although I was thinking gangbanging bish deer horde in nikis...
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Glad it was a deer and not a moose or a rhino;)
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If you find yourself in need of a radiator you want to check on-line. I had to change the one in my 94 wrangler and found a new one for a pretty good price (was changing the water pump and pulled a little too hard to remove it).
You would be surprised how reasonable they can be.
Oh, and be glad you weren't the deer.
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well you were in a truck, so it is different, but if you were in a car, your instincts were all wrong.
if you are going to hit, accellerate as fast as possible.
if you are braking, and slower in a car there is a MUCH higher chance of the deer coming in to say hello through the windshield. the faster you are going the better chance of the deer going right over the roof.
just an FYI many do not know.
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so does that count towards your limit?
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Originally posted by Mustaine
well you were in a truck, so it is different, but if you were in a car, your instincts were all wrong.
if you are going to hit, accellerate as fast as possible.
if you are braking, and slower in a car there is a MUCH higher chance of the deer coming in to say hello through the windshield. the faster you are going the better chance of the deer going right over the roof.
just an FYI many do not know.
This is so wrong in so many ways! Not all cars are created the same! If you had a sloping hood, you'd just be launching that critter through your windshield at a higher speed in your theory!
Ask any state highway patrol or defensive driver instructor, SLOWING DOWN when a deer is spotted is the prudent thing to do, not speed up! LOL!:rofl
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Originally posted by J_A_B
Be glad you struck a deer at 30 MPH in your Explorer and not in a Honda Civic.
J_A_B
Hit a deer once in my 1975 Honda CVCC. The deer and my car were about the same size. I musta pulled back on the stick at just the right time, cause she went right under my tires. Not even a scratch on the car.. (quite a bit of blood to hose off though).
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
...Ask any state highway patrol or defensive driver instructor,
it may have been a while, but that IS what they taught us in drivers ED here in Wisc.
the higher the speed the more you deflect the deer away from the passenger compartment.
but hey what do i know, i only have 3 relatives that have hit over 20 deer total, living in the UP and north Wisc.
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Deer= 20 points and one bar of health. Also adds a star to your wanted level though.
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Originally posted by RightF00T
Deer= 20 points and one bar of health. Also adds a star to your wanted level though.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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With deer, moose or other big critters on or near roads its best to brake hard, even after they get out of the way. Don’t steer to avoid until collision is eminent, steer behind them whenever possible. Don’t drive past them at over 20 mph. Many of them behave as if they want to get hit and wait to jump into your path at the last second.
The speed up idea sounds pretty stupid. Not only is the potential energy greater, but deer often bound and vary in size; their CG AGL is not consistent. More cars, and even trucks, today have sloping hoods. There are too many variables to bet that a deer will fly over the cabin if hit at over 70 mph.
eskimo
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Glad it was a deer and not a moose or a rhino;)
someone call me? :cool:
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Originally posted by eskimo2
With deer, moose or other big critters on or near roads its best to brake hard, even after they get out of the way. Don’t steer to avoid until collision is eminent, steer behind them whenever possible. Don’t drive past them at over 20 mph. Many of them behave as if they want to get hit and wait to jump into your path at the last second.
The speed up idea sounds pretty stupid. Not only is the potential energy greater, but deer often bound and vary in size; their CG AGL is not consistent. More cars, and even trucks, today have sloping hoods. There are too many variables to bet that a deer will fly over the cabin if hit at over 70 mph.
eskimo
Actually I''ve heard the same thing. Not to brake or slow down.
The reason given is that especially with todays cars with sloped hoods when you brake hard it causes the nose of the car to drop and increases to potential of the critter comming over the hood and through your windsheild as opposed to you driving over him or blowing him out of the way .
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Drive a Porche and go _under_ the deer while you stab it from below.
Its how the metrosexual hunts!
Or go to the closest military base and steal a couple of slabs of reactive armour of the more voletile type and mount it (the right way) on your grill. Poor deer :D
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I hope your kids are proud that their daddy killed bambi!
:rofl :rofl :rofl