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Driving along, minding my own buisiness, when WHAM, a deer from the local game reserve, jumped a wall straight into my car. It dented the near side wing and tore off the wing mirror. So I thought! Took it this morning to the insurance repair place. Needs new wing and mirror, new passenger side door and many bumps pulled out, at least a grands worth of damage. Lucky it was a young one! It rolled along my car, got up and jumped over the wall, never even leaving me his insurance details! When I rang the park to tell them that they might have an injured deer, I was informed that it wan't one of theirs. Must have been a wild one!!!! Amazingly enough, exactly the same thing happened, in the same place, to me 30 years ago! Only difference then was that I killed it, and it wrote off my car! In thirty years time I am going to steer clear of that area!!!!!!!!!!

What a great story Submariner, i see your planning on living to a ripe old age.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous

Theres no fool like an old fool.

I'm glad to hear you're all right Submariner. I've seen roe deer jump a wall onto a 50mph road and thought how dangerous it would be if anyone was passing at the same time. Commiserations (sp)? on the cost of repair though.

crikey
where we live we often see roe deer; but luckily i have so far avoided them with my car.
we often see them at dusk, and they really are a beautiful sight. i know they ruin plants but you can't disagree that they are mystical
submariner i'd possibly give up driving by the age of 100 PLUS!!

I used to live in the Welsh vallies and it was not unusual to have a flock of sheep jump over the walls onto any passing vehicle.
Pete

Hells bells, I never realised it was so risky driving around some parts!

deb there's also swerve and miss rabbits near me too

SPOOOKEY sure it wasnt the twilight zone,introduce the music (mingle, mangle, mingle, mangle)should off killed the sod and put him in your freezer

Someting similar happened to us when driving through Scotland 30 years ago. A deer jumped up out of a ditch and hit the car. OH rushed to see to the animal. Realised he was beyond help so finished him off with a large rock. Then looked at the car, which was a write off, and wanted to resuscitate the deer.

We would have seized the carcass if we had anything to transport it in that was capabale of moving!

We lost out all ways - no car and no meat. We've been more cautious on subsequent visits.

My son decided last week, on visiting the loo's at our campsite late at night, that a good thing to do on the way back was to chase the bunny rabbits.
He did not catch any, he claims because they cheated and ran UNDER the caravans, but he did fall over and totally skin his elbow.

Hi Submariner,
On this mornings Farming Today they had a bit about Deer in England and Wales and it would appear that there are in excess of 50,000 accidents involving Deer and Traffic and sadly there are between 15 and 20 Fatal Casualties most years caused by Deer and generally involving high speed.
It would appear the the culling procedure in Scotland is as it should be but in England and Wales there is a different culling procedure laid down by DEFRA. In Scotland they are permitted to use lower calibre guns and it all works perfectly but somehow in their wisdom DEFRA seems to think England and Wales can't use the same procedure. Rules on culling are to be relaxed as we somehow have got to the point where we have 50% yes %0% more deer than is the norm. I would say this is a classic case of another prat flying a desk.
Of course none of this is of any consolation to you but I thought you might like to know.

My husband remembers well a family outing in the lake district where he grew up when his dad hit a deer. As the deer was nearly dead, his dad helped him along to avoid his suffering, took the family home and then came back for the deer. He hung it in the barn and butchered it and provided his family with food for quite some time. However he freely admitted that this was actually illeagal. You are only allowed to take home road kill if you are not the car to hit it apparently. But hey, waste not want not - after all he had a family to feed.