Too late for me, got myself a 6 pointer on Rt 247 Monday. He tried to jump over my jeep, didn't make it. Needless to say my windshield is gone, along with my rearview mirror. If I had been driving anything lower to the ground, deer would've been in the car with me. I am lucky. Another car going the opposite way was damaged as well...he really did come out of nowhere!
Something almost similar happened to me back in '93.....'94.....somewhere about that time. I was coming home from one of the clubs in Waldorf on a Saturday night/Sunday morning; sober as a judge. I was almost on the Hollywood side of Oraville when a deer jumped across both lanes in front of me. Of course, I swerved (too quickly for the road conditions) to avoid hitting the deer, only to slide on the wet pavement, into the guardrail head-on, spinning clockwise to also flatten the left rear quarter panel of my "low-slung" "road-rocket" '92 Plymouth Laser(Mitsubishi Eclipse.....same thing).
I was living at home at the time; and when the tow truck woke Dad up, he came out, saw the car and asked, "[What the H*ll did you hit?" I told him I avoided a deer only to catch a guard rail. Dad said, 'NEXT time, hit the d*mn deer." Hind sight being 20-20, I prob'ly should have. The low stance of that car prob'ly would have made the deer go right over top of the car.
That was the beginning.....after that, I got into a fender bender and one more major accident (in the snow on 249); the one that took my toy away from me.
Ah well.....live and learn.....I'm done now.
I have other stories but.....another time.....another place.....
