Guys, I killed..

[DGMPhotography]

I just killed a deer and I feel terrible

I hit it with my car and it's like time almost slowed down as I saw the poor animal fly up into the air like a rag doll and skid across the road..

I'm feeling a lot of different things. I don't even kill spiders, so needless to say I'm experiencing a bit of grief, and could use some encouragement.

 

[mmaria]

Oh God, for both of you...

I can only imagine how that must feel...

Unfortunately I'm not the right person for encouragement because I simply don't know how to encourage people, but I'm sure someone nice will say something nice and help you a bit...

 

[weepete]

It happens mate, deer have a habit of coming out of nowhere and jumping into the road. There was probably nothing you could have done to avoid it. Hopefully everyone in your car is ok otherwise I assume you would have mentioned. People are killed evey year when they hit deer, so the big upside is that you are still alive.

 

[Braineack]

I just killed a deer and I feel terrible

I hit it with my car and it's like time almost slowed down as I saw the poor animal fly up into the air like a rag doll and skid across the road..

i-64?

 

[sm4him]

Was your car still drivable?
I know several people who have hit deer in the road, and it often ends almost as badly for the car as it does for the deer. In fact, of the people I know that it's happened to, I think it's only killed the deer once, but several cars have been rendered undrivable.

I do sympathize with you; it's a horrible feeling. There's really nothing you can do when they come charging out into the road, especially in the dark, and it seems like (around here) it's ALWAYS just around a curve that they tend to leap out at you, so you don't even have any reaction time.

I've never even come close to hitting a deer, but I have hit several smaller critters, raccoons, possums, squirrels--they dart across the road, then suddenly change direction and dart right back under your tires and there's just nothing you can do.
I also once hit someone's dog that had wandered out onto the main highway through town. It was night, and in that area, there are no streetlights. It was a pretty small dog and I never even saw it until I'd hit it--it must have darted into the road at the last second.

It always makes me sick at my stomach, and sometimes I keep "seeing" it happen, in my head, for days afterward, and hearing that awful sound. I don't even like to SEE animals that have been hit, so actually hitting one just makes me sick.

On the plus side--in Tennessee, if you accidentally hit a deer with your car and kill it, it's yours. It's called the Roadkill Law, and I'm NOT just making that up. It's a thing.

 

[sscarmack]

Can I have the meat

 

[Warhorse]

Sometimes deer just do not look before crossing a road!

Last time I had a car/deer accident, I was traveling down the interstate at 70MPH. The deer came charging up from the low median in the middle, and ran into my rear driver side door committing suicide. Broke it's neck right on the spot, paralyzing it. I called the state police who came out and gave me a report number for my insurance, and a kill tag (the female trooper killed the deer with a head shot).

It was a big doe, and yielded 65#'s of good venison.

 

[sscarmack]

 

[runnah]

Did you keep the meat? It's easier to ease your pain with a nice steak.

 

[mishele]

Ahhh, that sucks. Look at it this way, you probably saved it from suffering through a much more painful death. Some hunter with band aim could of shot it, leaving it to run around in the woods for hours till it bleeds to death or the always enjoyable starvation through the winter...hehe
I'm glad you're ok, babe!

 

[ruifo]

Reflect, but just don't become to obsessive about it. It was just an accident, with no intention. That's important to realize.

 

[mmaria]

Can I have the meat

Did you keep the meat? It's easier to ease your pain with a nice steak.

Ahhh, that sucks. Look at it this way, you probably saved it from suffering through a much more painful death. Some hunter with band aim could of shot it, leaving it to run around in the woods for hours till it bleeds to death or the always enjoyable starvation through the winter...hehe
I'm glad you're ok, babe!

Why oh why I reopen this thread!!?

 

[D-B-J]

Can I have the meat

Too soon...


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[ronlane]

At 2:16 in the morning? Don't you know that deer have the right of way after midnight?

 

[runnah]

It's a deer. Get a grip people.