Monday - December 21, 2009

Bad Me

I guess I’m an official New Jersey resident now. I hit a deer with the car on the way to bowling tonight. We were going up the back way to Washington, which avoids all the lights and traffic on the local highway, and takes us down a woodsy but fairly high speed road. It was after dark, about 10 after 6. A vehicle was coming the other way, and when he was about a half second ahead of me I saw the briefest flicker across his headlights. “DEER!!” screams my wife, who has the best deer-dar (radar for deer spotting. Like gay-dar, only with antlers sometimes) I’ve ever seen. But as she was screaming and scrunching down into her seat I was stamping on the brakes. Too late. All I saw was a black dot (hoof, nose?) and some white underbelly passing in front of the car, below the hood level. Bam, ba-bump. Caught her on the spoiler below the bumper and went right over her with the front right tire.

Stone dead. Wife was semi-pissed at me because I wasn’t alert enough. I think the oncoming car hit the deer first and bounced it under our car. I’ve seen that happen right in front of me many times before, but always a little further away so I could stop or swerve. I simply didn’t have any time for that this time. That’s how it had to have happened; the nose of our car only comes up to mid-thigh; it’s an ‘03 Sentra. And the deer went under. Even the little micro-deer in NJ are taller than this car’s hood. If I’d hit it square on all by myself it would have flipped up over the hood and come right through the windshield.

Damage to the car - her car of course - is fairly slight. Tore a chunk out of the spoiler below the front bumper, got a tuft of hair stuck behind the headlight fascia. Couldn’t tell more than that since it was dark. I’ll call my insurance company tomorrow and see what can be done.

Poor deer. Sorry God.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/21/2009 at 10:58 PM   
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