Collective gasp - THUD! And the big buck was flying over my car and off the road. My kid tells me there was also a doe with two fawns, but I didn't count them all. I just know I hit the big one. It was Saturday night - 9:00 PM and thank goodness I was slowing down on approach to my driveway.
I never had time to be afraid, but all three passengers in my car did! My little girls and I had just taken Brenda Starr out for a farewell dinner as she was going home to California the following day. We were lucky because our car did what it's designed to do and stayed in our lane when I stood on the brakes, and that prevented us from crossing into the oncoming lane where there was another car approaching. I even think the deer was lucky, because I happened to be slowing down already before I saw him. We haven't found a deer body, (Unless the state troopers who filed the accident report carted him off...)
What really amazed me about the whole experience was the thoughts that were playing through my head immediately proir to the accident. My littlest kid was crying in the back seat and I was trying to distract her when I said, "Let's watch and see if we see any deer on the road", and in my head I finished the sentence with, "before we hit one." I don't think we'd traveled 100 yards after that thought when a whole deer family suddenly materialized right in front of us on the road. Were my guardian angels trying to warn me? If I'd given more attention to my thoughts might I have been able to miss that deer?
I never had time to be afraid, but all three passengers in my car did! My little girls and I had just taken Brenda Starr out for a farewell dinner as she was going home to California the following day. We were lucky because our car did what it's designed to do and stayed in our lane when I stood on the brakes, and that prevented us from crossing into the oncoming lane where there was another car approaching. I even think the deer was lucky, because I happened to be slowing down already before I saw him. We haven't found a deer body, (Unless the state troopers who filed the accident report carted him off...)
What really amazed me about the whole experience was the thoughts that were playing through my head immediately proir to the accident. My littlest kid was crying in the back seat and I was trying to distract her when I said, "Let's watch and see if we see any deer on the road", and in my head I finished the sentence with, "before we hit one." I don't think we'd traveled 100 yards after that thought when a whole deer family suddenly materialized right in front of us on the road. Were my guardian angels trying to warn me? If I'd given more attention to my thoughts might I have been able to miss that deer?