My deer crash pictures are apparently pretty popular

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This blog doesn’t get a lot of traffic, but I noticed that nearly all of it is to look at the pictures of my car accident.  Many of them are referrals from google for people searching for images of car and deer accidents.  That’s pretty morbid.  My picture is on the second page of nearly all the search results, which means that there are LOT of people searching for pictures of car crashes with deer.  It’s also apparently going around in an email.  To be honest, it’s not really that impressive, but since it seems to be what people want to see and I’m all about delivering, here you go:

Got Deer?

Posted by jerry as Uncategorized

So, I haven’t updated the site in forever and a day.  Being acquired and trying to hammer out a new position in the buying company takes its toll.  After a particularly bad day on Wednesday, I was on my way to the gym at the office at 5 a.m. on Thursday, and wham - a deer hops out into the street, past the van in the lane next to me, and I have no time to react.  The first time I see it, it’s 20 feet in front my my car, and I’m doing between 55 and 60 mph.

Well, here is the result:

So, it was a pretty scary thing.  After I hit it, my car wanted to head into the left lane, where there were some other cars.  I had to fight back and basically stood on the brake.  I pulled onto the shoulder which was mostly dirt, and my anti-lock was going crazy.  I thought it was going to take forever to stop, really pissed that it was taking so long.  I just wanted to stop - I didn’t know what all was wrong with the car.  When I got out, I realized that I had gone all of about 20 feet past where the deer was laying.  It had been knocked back to the median from where I hit it in the left lane.

The week before, I had just replaced the tires on this car.  I ended up spending a LOT more than I planned - I got the Goodyear Eagle Responsedge.  I was planning on spending about $500, and walked out $1100 lighter.  I had decided to drive it the few miles home, rather than wait for a tow truck.  That was fun.  The car really didn’t want to go.  When I got home, I noticed that the back passenger tire was mostly flat.  Sheesh.

So, to summarize:

• Hitting a deer sucks
• People who don’t stop to see if you’re ok after hitting a deer right in front of them, suck
• Acura TL is a great car
• Allstate insurance has been extremely cooperative and helpful, so far.
• I’m estimating the repair bill will be about $9000, and will take 3 weeks.  We will see how I do.
• The Cobb County Police Officer that took my report was a great guy.