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Originally Posted by MikeK
The plane takes off!!11!1eleventy!
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ThreadWin right there.
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Originally Posted by sperry
I've always been in the "just slow down as much as possible and hit it head on" camp. I'd rather have a clear-cut case of hitting a deer and getting everything repaired by my comprehensive insurance, than swerving, losing control, and crashing the car and having it count as an at-fault accident.
Plus, if you swerve and wreck anyway, it's more than likely going to be a bigger, more dangerous wreck, than just plowing over a deer, assuming the deer doesn't come through the windshield.
It's of course a lose-lose situation, but unless I'm sure I can drive around the deer, I'm just going to ride the ABS as hard as I can and attempt to steer clear rather than attempt a risky lane toss manuver.
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Intellectually I'd agree with you except this exact thing happened to me right before we moved from SLO and I ended up doing the "risky lane toss" purely out of instinct. I was going from SLO out to the beach on one of the canyon roads at night in the Jeep, came out of a long sweeper at ~60mph, a deer popped out from behind a tree and started running across the road, I got on the braking threshold for a second, realized it wasn't going to stop fast enough, right before impact the deer darted one way and I steered it the other... it missed the LF corner by about 6" as I blew by still going ~35mph. Probably all happened in less than 3 seconds, and I didn't have time to think "you know, I should probably just keep it straight and minimize the chance of me rolling this thing over".