Yeah, so driving back to lubbock to move a few things into storage after work and i come over a hill and smack into a deer.

Deer goes flying. I hit him doing around 70 softest impact i could imagine (thanks lexus.)
Knocked both it's antlers clean off but that was the only blood. You could see the marks in the hood where the antlers peirced it. I was worried that it's antlers were going to come straight through the glass and impale me. It was twitchin until the second car got it.

So the deer flys into the left lane(i was in first) then a second car about 2 mins later comes over the hill and hits it. Their chev Aveo jumps onto 2 wheels and skid 200 feet into a guard rail which span them around to face up traffic. I thought they were going to roll for sure.

Then a semi comes and blasts the deer 12 feet and off the side of the road. (deer pretty much exploded on impact of that one) Driver kept going, it didn't phase him...

Scary as hell.

pics are from a cell phone so...






Car got towed to crosbyton tx after waiting an hour for the police and ambulance to show up (one of the ladys in the second car was already on her way to the hospital for a bee sting)


The lady in the aveo kept the antlers.
6 point deer still felting (i don't really know what that means but it was pretty big)

Anyway no one was hurt, and insurance will take care of it. rates shouldn't go up as it was unavoidable (cop said so and 3 people hitting it out of the 3 people that passed it kinda helps prove that )

 

Glad to hear your ok. Seeing beautiful lexus's in a accident brings a tear to my eye. Hopefully the insurance company takes care of everything to your expectations.

 

Ack! That sucks!

The good news: you're okay. Cars can be fixed.

Think of it as an opportunity; now you'll get a new hood and possibly headlights.
Time to freshen-up the front of the car - after the re-spray of the bumper and painting the hood you'll have no more stone chips!

Be sure to check under the hood, inspect the intake air box, core support, headlight mounting tabs (which can get broken in an impact like this). The body shop and insurance adjuster will inspect for other damage. You can probably get the insurance to pay for a four-wheel alignment, too.

 

Yeah glad you are OK

 

this is wierd. that's your hood, right?

 

Haha i just had it aligned on wednesday for this trip cause i installed the tein cs last friday.
JUST had a new front bumper put on and was going to have the hood repainted next weekend
(friends dad manages an auto body shop)

i'm pretty sure the headlights are toast so maybe now i'll have some clean ones

now if i can some how say the deer flipped onto my hood and made a bunch of hail-like dents the car would be flawless haha

But yeah, radiator was smashed in and leaking, engine sounded fine while it was idling so that should be good news, maybe i can get a new timing belt and water pump service outa it

 

that would be the deer... (90% sure lol) horrible pic that i had to lighten to see at all...

 

That poor deer , Glad your ok though and your car didnt have worse damage.

 

take more pictures!!!

I hit a bunny one time... it was freakin huge but didn't do any damage to the car...

It affected me though... so I wrote a letter...

To the bunny...

To the poor bunny on I-8 West,

I didn't mean to do it. I swear. It was 6am in the morning. I normally wouldn't be 150 miles away from home on the freeway at the time of our meeting but my friend wanted to leave for California early so we left at 3am. I'm not saying its her fault but she DID want to leave that early. It's a fact- you gotta believe me. I also told my roommate I wouldn't speed so I was only going 80mph. We wouldn't have met if I had gone faster. I'm not saying it's his fault but I DID promise I wouldn't go over 100mph. Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is - I didn't mean for us to meet like that and I want you to know that I'm sorry.

It all happened so fast. You hopped out two little hops and stood up with your ears all tall. You faced us with an inquisitive look like I had just asked you what the square root of 81 was and your paws were in front of your chest all together like the cartoon bunnies in the cartoons. I swear, your ears were taller than the headlights of my car so you must have been an old fella. I yelled out "Holy ****!" and suddenly "Thwump Thwump!" later - it was done. My car continued on its way as expediently as it had been seconds earlier and my jaw just dropped. My friend just sat there and she couldn't talk for like... 4 minutes.

I don't even want to know what you look like now. But I will forever remember what you looked like in your full glory, on your haunches, paws up by your chest, ears perked up tall... looking straight into my HID headlights.

Sorry bunny. It was an accident. Not like that guy who's going to eat your cousin, Toby on SaveToby.com. If it helps any, I told all my friends about SaveToby.com and hopefully they will help raise the necessary funds to save your cousin from the frying pan. I tell my friends about it because I don't really feel like buying a product with a bunny on it - it would remind me of you too much.

Just in case you were wondering - your light and fluffy body didn't do any damage to my bumper. I have to admit, I was worried more about my bumper at first but that's only because I've known my car longer than our 2-second encounter.


Respectfully Yours,


Clifford

 

I was about 2 or 3 feet from hitting one years ago on a dark country road when one flashed across the front of my car with no warning Glad you're OK that's the most important !!

 

for anyone interested in what a run in with a deer costs...
insurance adjuster quoted $7,787.29 for "No structural damage except the radiator housing "

stupid deer.

 

Damn man... Sorry to hear about the price.

If i were you- i'd be wanting those damn antlers back I could have them mounted with a 8k price tag hanging on it. Gotta have SOMETHING to show for that!

 

I did as well:

 

Damn did the deer hit your cell phone as well?

 

lol it was completely dark outside the little light i had came from the flash. had to run that through photoshop to even get what i did.

hopefully i'll get some more pics later.