Each year many deer are killed when hit by cars. Dave the deer is attempting to teach drivers how to better avoid hitting deer.
Of course, if the driver takes Dave’s directions, Dave isn’t likely to survive unhurt.
Not that I want to blame the victim, but shouldn’t Dave be teaching other deer not to run out in the middle of the road?
According to German insurance regulations, they will cover damage to the car if the accident occured as the result of avoiding a collision with a “large” animal (such as deer or wild boar). Hitting an animal of that size would seriously damage the car in any case. However, this does not apply for “small” animals. If you hit a tree because you dodged a rabbit, you probably won’t get much sympathy for your claim.
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>>shouldn’t Dave be teaching other deer not to run out in the middle of the road?
For thousands of years, deer could run anywhere they want without fear of being struck by two tons of metal moving at more than double their top speed. From a deer perspective, clearly humans– not deer– are the source of the problem. Why should the deer need to modify their behavior?
According to German insurance regulations, they will cover damage to the car if the accident occured as the result of avoiding a collision with a “large” animal
I’m not familiar with insurance in Germany. In the US, most companies cover hitting large animals under comprehensive rather than collision. That can be important because some people drop collision and keep comprehensive. Also, comprehensive claims normally don’t lead to an increase in rates because it’s not an “at fault” situation. I don’t know how avoidance accidents would be covered at most insurers.
Two weeks ago tonight, my son swerved to avoid hitting a deer on the highway at 65 mph…and took out 30 feet of guardrail and my Hyundai Genesis instead. FWIW- the fire department couldn’t believe he walked away without a scratch. I just emailed this to him…..
I read a thing once that said that you usually hit the second deer. Most drivers see a deer and avoid the deer and breathe a sigh of relief. That sigh of relief is often cut short when the deer they didn’t see turns up in their headlights.
pepperjackcandy, this sort of happened to me once: saw the first deer just in time to swerve between two running deer.
My son was in the car and he said afterward “Did you just do what I think you did?”
I’m glad he was impressed, but this was pure instinct and I didn’t even register what had happened until it was over. If I had had a chance to think, I probably would have wrecked the car.
Your ‘running deer’ brings to mind ‘The Holly and the Ivy’, a song I particularly like, and the line ‘The running of the deer’ will now have a different meaning for me.
[i]”According to German insurance regulations, they will cover damage to the car if the accident occured as the result of avoiding a collision with a ‘large’ animal (such as deer or wild boar). Hitting an animal of that size would seriously damage the car in any case. However, this does not apply for ‘small’ animals. If you hit a tree because you dodged a rabbit, you probably won’t get much sympathy for your claim.”[/i]
So comes the inevitable business of where to draw the line between a large or small animal. A large dog? If so, does it have to be as big as a St. Bernard or would a Labrador be large? A dalmatian? …
One could potentially nit-pick the exact point of definition to death. And then there’s likely to be an animal out there that exact size.
@ Bob Peters – I believe “wild boar” is the lower limit. There’s no need to discuss various canine breeds, because even the largest dogs don’t come close to the weight of an adult boar (300-400 lbs).
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Each year many deer are killed when hit by cars. Dave the deer is attempting to teach drivers how to better avoid hitting deer.
Of course, if the driver takes Dave’s directions, Dave isn’t likely to survive unhurt.
Not that I want to blame the victim, but shouldn’t Dave be teaching other deer not to run out in the middle of the road?
According to German insurance regulations, they will cover damage to the car if the accident occured as the result of avoiding a collision with a “large” animal (such as deer or wild boar). Hitting an animal of that size would seriously damage the car in any case. However, this does not apply for “small” animals. If you hit a tree because you dodged a rabbit, you probably won’t get much sympathy for your claim.
Fortunately, in the US, we have GEICO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z6ixrfKgO0 :-)
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>>shouldn’t Dave be teaching other deer not to run out in the middle of the road?
For thousands of years, deer could run anywhere they want without fear of being struck by two tons of metal moving at more than double their top speed. From a deer perspective, clearly humans– not deer– are the source of the problem. Why should the deer need to modify their behavior?
According to German insurance regulations, they will cover damage to the car if the accident occured as the result of avoiding a collision with a “large” animal
I’m not familiar with insurance in Germany. In the US, most companies cover hitting large animals under comprehensive rather than collision. That can be important because some people drop collision and keep comprehensive. Also, comprehensive claims normally don’t lead to an increase in rates because it’s not an “at fault” situation. I don’t know how avoidance accidents would be covered at most insurers.
Two weeks ago tonight, my son swerved to avoid hitting a deer on the highway at 65 mph…and took out 30 feet of guardrail and my Hyundai Genesis instead. FWIW- the fire department couldn’t believe he walked away without a scratch. I just emailed this to him…..
I read a thing once that said that you usually hit the second deer. Most drivers see a deer and avoid the deer and breathe a sigh of relief. That sigh of relief is often cut short when the deer they didn’t see turns up in their headlights.
pepperjackcandy, this sort of happened to me once: saw the first deer just in time to swerve between two running deer.
My son was in the car and he said afterward “Did you just do what I think you did?”
I’m glad he was impressed, but this was pure instinct and I didn’t even register what had happened until it was over. If I had had a chance to think, I probably would have wrecked the car.
Your ‘running deer’ brings to mind ‘The Holly and the Ivy’, a song I particularly like, and the line ‘The running of the deer’ will now have a different meaning for me.
[i]”According to German insurance regulations, they will cover damage to the car if the accident occured as the result of avoiding a collision with a ‘large’ animal (such as deer or wild boar). Hitting an animal of that size would seriously damage the car in any case. However, this does not apply for ‘small’ animals. If you hit a tree because you dodged a rabbit, you probably won’t get much sympathy for your claim.”[/i]
So comes the inevitable business of where to draw the line between a large or small animal. A large dog? If so, does it have to be as big as a St. Bernard or would a Labrador be large? A dalmatian? …
One could potentially nit-pick the exact point of definition to death. And then there’s likely to be an animal out there that exact size.
@ Bob Peters – I believe “wild boar” is the lower limit. There’s no need to discuss various canine breeds, because even the largest dogs don’t come close to the weight of an adult boar (300-400 lbs).
Irene – Glad your son was not hurt.