What do you think it would take for this driver to stop and see what he/she had hit!
Bizarre!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/37235...m
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Muntjacs are tiny and very slight of build. I can quite believe the driver thought it was a large stone. Quite why someone took a photo rather than helping the poor animal immediately is another question that I regret is probably best left unanswered.
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It wanted its moment of fame, so it got back in to pose for the camera.
Hope that makes you feel better..
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Sadly not.
Should have been run over by an Alfa. Would have only had to endure a couple of miles before the inevitable breakdown.
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Thankfully It was reasonably unhurt and released back into the wild unlike the deer I hit several years ago which was out looking for food for it's kids. I'll never forget the look in it's eyes as i hit it at about 80mph and reduced the Sierra i was driving into a crumpled mess. This young deer can count itself very very lucky.
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Not so young. Looks to me like a fully grown one, or at least adolescent.
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Snip!8<
Motoring, not murder if you don\'t mind.
Ta!
No Dosh
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Half asleep still this morning, I think I heard a news item saying that 50,000 deer are hit by cars each year and 10 drivers are killed in accidents involving deer. Seem very high numbers - can anyone confirm?
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high numbers - can anyone confirm?
Seems feasible to me, Recently where I live a car hit a stag and overturned seriously injuring the driver. The high risk times for this sort of incident are early in the morning, deserted roads, Higher speeds than normal, and the deer feeding.
A lethal combination.
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Half asleep still this morning, I think I heard a news item saying that 50,000 deer are hit by cars each year and 10 drivers are killed in accidents involving deer. Seem very high numbers - can anyone confirm?
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I think you probably heard it.Info below seems to support it.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3722704.stm
New figures show deer are involved in about 15,000 incidents per year on Scotland's roads.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news
COLLISIONS or near misses with deer killed at least 10 people on UK roads last year.
A further 250 people were injured in such accidents.
The death and injury toll among the animals was even higher, with between 30,000 and 50,000 killed or wounded.
But this could be just the tip of the iceberg as the true scale of the problem is largely unknown.
Now the RAC Foundation are backing a campaign to discover the full extent of the situation. They are also urging drivers to report any deer accidents that they have been involved in or witnessed.
Over the last year, data has been gathered from all over the country on collisions involving deer.
Details emerged of 12,000 incidents including 3000 this year alone.
Accidents tend to peak between now and December and the RAC are warning motorists to be extra vigilant.
In Scotland, the areas with the most deer-related accidents are the Highlands and the north-east.
www.deerstudy.com/danger.htm
In Germany, for example, 100,000 roe deer are killed each year on the roads.
There are no national statistics available in Britain though, because in certain areas of the country where statistics are compiled, we are aware that the numbers involved will be at least 25,000 and probably very considerably more
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