Oh deer... What's that? A curse?
 

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I hope your wrist is the worst of your injuries. Sorry to see you hit a deer. The first two pics are not loading for me; are they of your car?


I feel your pain! The month after buying my truck brand new; I hit a deer. My first new vehicle purchase and my first deer. :cry:

Oh, a Ts too.

That's a bummer. Also, why'd the airbag go off? Was the impact that bad?

Requesting pic of car.

RIP deer.

Deer will fuck your shit up.

Oh deer...

Hope that you're OK and that the wrist is the worst of your injuries. That must've been one heck of a hit! :confused0068:

I am glad you are okay.

Just wondering, did you post the car's pictures in a wildlife website?

LOL, I'm internet dumb. I'll try to host the picture somewhere and post them in the original post.

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The car looks repairable. Hopefully you have decent insurance coverage.

Deer have insurance ? Mutual of Omaha ? Sorry mainnn that sux. Hope it gets fixed up good as new.

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Thanks man.

Nope, and now I'm curious why you ask, LOL

State Farm. I dropped it off at Jack Hudson Collision Center in Foley, AL. They said it will take less than two weeks. I'm now driving a rented Nissan Versa, I guess my insurance is just 'ok.' Haha!

The left rear shock on that deer looks blown. That ain't going to be a cheap fix.
Oh, I missed the front right one too. That will be totaled out for sure.

Glad I could cheer you up. The joke was because you posted only the deer pictures first.

Now that I can see your car, it is not bad at all. I am sure they will fix it quickly. It will be so nice to drive it again after a Versa.

Hope you took that deer home and he is in your freezer!

I feel your pain man, that was me October 2017.

Daaaaamn...okay but what wheels though? Lol

18" XXR 527's, powder coated matte bronze, wrapped in MPSS's

Should be done the 17th. The rental Versa made me miss my BRZ instantly.

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The front left is spun around 180° too.

dibs on that red plastic lip accent.. not kidding, would buy..


but looks like its all repairable! GL

just imagine if it went under, no need to dice it up it'll be mince by the time it got to the other end. two deers one car :bonk:

Glad you are ok. It sucks that the car is damaged, but it is repariable. I know it is tough to say and accept, but it is only/just a car.

Hitting an animal is the best thing you could have done, if you were going to hit something. Insurance is much more forgiving when you hit wildlife/animal.

If there is ever a situation where you either hit the animal or swerve...ALWAYS hit the animal Ok, you Canadians might want to miss the Moose, but beyond the Moose, hit the animal.

It may sound wrong and you may feel bad for hurting/killing an animal, but don't.

Your insurance company will be much more understanding if the damage is caused by an animal; an act of nature out of your control vs. you swerving to avoid "something" and hitting a tree/post/guardrail/ditch which makes it look like a single vehicle accident and you have no way to prove otherwise (i.e. no hair/blood).

Hitting Animal = GOOD

Hitting tree/post/guardrail/ditch to miss animal = BAD


Cheers.

I hope you cooked the back straps that night, with a mushroom sauce.

My insurance agent is a friend of mine. He was my first phone call, and he set me up pretty quickly. One of my first questions was how this was going to affect my rates.
He said not at all, and the same thing you said, animal ok, but swerving to not hit an animal and hitting something else would cause my rates to rise.

I got a hotel room on State Farm's dime, drove the car to a body shop, and was picked up by Budget. So far, so good. I went with one of State Farm's recommended network shops, for the sole reason that I would have a nationwide warranty if the paint repair fails.

I know it's just a car, I'm not worried, they're using new Subaru factory parts (shop said that insurance companies typically try to force shops to use used/reconditioned parts, but none were available...must be the curse), and they send me texts to inform of their progress.

The worst part of all of this is driving a Versa. Oh and 4 hours earlier, I just installed a Perrin 2.5 resonated catback, intake tube & master cylinder brace, and Radium dual catch cans. 30 miles...I made it 30 miles.

As the deer was juking across the street like an ice skating epileptic, I hit the brakes and was waiting for it to come thru the windshield. When the airbag hit me, for a split second I thought it was the deer. My hands were knocked off the steering wheel (hands were wet 9 and 3 o'clock) and I grabbed it again and kept slowing to a stop. Fun times. No I didn't keep the deer. Nowhere to put it.

Finally got it back yesterday.

The car or the deer?


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Fucking deer! One ran in front of my Spark EV as I came around a corner. I managed to hit the brakes, maybe going from 35 to 20. It went full rag doll, flying 20-30 feet into the bushes. No body the next day, so it must have gotten up and hobbled off somewhere. Deer are rats with hooves.

Can you say “Bambi Burgers?”

It could also send you off the road where terrible things can happen to a car moving at highway speed. Don't ever point a car anywhere other than down the center of the road to miss a critter and in traffic don't stand on the brakes too hard because the vehicles behind you most likely won't know why or even see it coming and you're likely to cause a multi car collision that you may be responsible for.I recently watched a woman nail the brakes and swerve into oncoming traffic to miss a squirrel and cause a 4 car pileup, what a mess.

Many years ago, driving an old Toyota FJ55 at ~1am 30 miles from the nearest town an elk decided to step out in front of me. The thing looked into my headlights and moved just a bit and slipped on the icy road and went down looking right at me. I was doing about 50mph so there was no way I was pointing it off the road so I took it head on. That old beast of a truck rolled right through and over that critter but part of it's rack snapped off and punctured the radiator and it shredded underneath so there were bits of flesh stuck everywhere. The antler sealed the hole it made so no harm no foul and that old Chevy 350 under the hood kept purring right along. The flesh froze solid so again, no foul. I got to Las Vegas ~15 hours later and parked it outside the hotel I was staying in. As the flesh defrosted it had an odor, a really bad rotting flesh odor. The hotel made me move the truck to the far end of the property on the other side of the golf course and security drove me back and told me that they'd give me a ride out when I was ready to leave. The only real damage was something got up into the engine compartment and shredded the alternator belt and a piece got wedged in behind the cooling fan and it ate itself for lunch so I had to replace the belt and alternator. The antler was still stuck in the radiator when I sold the truck 2 years later.