Ooops! Deer Crash...

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https://youtu.be/atCrbQv5P3k

Shorts and asphalt hurt...

WOW! That sucks. My worst fear when riding is hitting a deer. I have hit several with my truck and that is scary enough. I try not to ride in the evening and not at all at night if I can help it. Being an avid deer hunter I feel like it would be just my luck to get taken out by one. Hope you heal up quick, glad it wasn't worse than it was.

No, it's not a video of me. I don't ride on the street in shorts... :)

Glad you're o.k. Sucks for whoever that was. I had a bird fly into my chest one morning while going to work doing 65 to 70 mph wearing a t-shirt, left a mark yes indeed.

That would SUCK!!!!! I have come close once or twice but man, that sucked. Poor guy.

Its amazing how G rated he stayed throughout the event. I develop severe tourette's in any sort of accident. I would have had several F bombs out before I ever met the concrete.

I too hit a deer on my WRR not funny at all. I was not wearing shorts and shoes though had on appropriate armor/boots and walked away with only a broken thumb where my left handgrip straightened my thumb out when I hit the deer. Watch out for em they appear out of nowhere.

It made the latest Tosh.0. I recognized the bike instantly. :)

I don't ride in shorts either.. Leather 95% of the time..



I'm going to hell..

I had a friend hit a deer 10-15 years ago. It happened at 9pm coming home from work and a jogger found him at 7am the next morning. He laid in a ditch all night unconscious, he was single at the time so nobody even knew he was "missing". He was hurt up pretty badly and spent a long time in the hospital. He's fine now thankfully.

ive hit coons where i am and thank god i wear my gear, i didnt go down but i met up with the ditch pretty quick. its hard to skin graph when theres nothing to graph!!!

Wow.
F that, i never ride in shorts or t shirt. Sneakers at a minimum for footwear.

On a multi-day ride in Colorado I was pulling out of a town at dusk with 1 hour to the next town where I was to be staying that night and saw about 4 deer in the first 10 minutes. Turned right around, went back to town I just left and got a room for the night.

I do ride in shorts, sandals and no helmet.

At 3mph through the campground or in our parking lot, with people on bicycles passing me by...

I've hit deer on two occasions on my motorcycles.

First time was around 1992 on a 1990 Yamaha DT-200RA (smuggled in from Canada).
The deer jumped out and basically seemed intent on running straight for me, despite my efforts to steer away from it.
I hit it at about 35-40mph and went down, was dazed and laying in the middle of the road for about 5 seconds, then gathered my wits, picked the bike up, cursed the deer, and rode home about a mile away.
As I was getting up, I saw the deer prance away from the scene.
No permanent damage to bike or rider, and I assume the deer was OK.
I had been told how dumb deer were, and I had just found out first-hand.

Second incident was when riding my 2003 Yamaha FZ-1 street bike back in 2007, a 1,000cc naked sport bike or "standard" bike as the magazines liked to call them.
As usual, the deer shot out of nowhere and I didn't even see it before I hit it, and the only way I knew I'd hit something was when the handlebars flinched in my hands.
I didn't go down, thank God, but as I stopped, turned around, and rode back to the spot, there was a deer on the side of the road, dead.
The furry little critter's skull bonked off my lower right-hand fork leg, grazed my right boot, banged against my muffler canister, and then breathed it's last breath as it layed on a guy's lawn at the edge of the road.
The bike got a bent radiator, and although it wasn't leaking and I was able to ride it home, I still replaced it.

If you wonder why some people aren't too fond of seeing deer, try this sometime.
If you are lucky, you'll never have to experience it.

This actually happened to me yesterday with about the same size deer as in the video. It was my first deer accident in my life. I had just broke camp (stealth camping) at about 7 in the morning on a small dirt road and going 35 - 40 mph. I saw the deer jump out of the bush and though that deer would not be able to get in front of me so I did not hit the brakes too hard. All I could think was damn deer is going to make me crash. The deer then ran into the side of my WR and I felt it slam into forks and the side of my foot. The bike was only knocked off line about 6 inches or so by the hit. When I figured out that I was not going down, I looked to the side to see the Stooooopid Deer tumbling along the road. By the time I stopped and looked behind me the dear was gone. The deer ended up bending my tank plastics a bit and bending the horn a bit too. I guess I am really fortunate and it is actually a little funny. Of course I was in full gear so I was protected.


What makes deer want to head butt vehicles?

Can somebody explain to me whats with his leg? It looks... green?

deer shit explosion

Hit a dog and ended up with a broken clavicle. Never hit a deer although I've had the back tire locked up trying to avoid one. I am never on a bike in shorts and have all the gear on most of the time.

I've hit deer twice while riding, once while driving a car.

Fairly big, fast, and *really* stupid! (deer, not me - I'm slow!)

Hitting wild animals is probably my biggest riding fear, because I like small back roads which unfortunately often have thick folliage nearly up to the edge of the pavement.

And always remember: ATGATT!

I thought it was just Pa that spread those ridiculous rumors about predators being introduced. If there are so many cougars in our area how come people only see them but never get good pictures or we never see a road killed one? You see road killed bears, bobcats, coyotes, etc., in Pa but never a Mt.Lion, hmmm .

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201206190407/GPG0101/206190398

They have two confirmed road kills in southern ILL and several sightings......no den sightings however but Shawnee national forest is a large place

ouchh, all the healing vibes for you buddy.

Ooops! Bear Crash...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXniNjVFt10&feature=youtu.be