Time to send in the mountain lions to help control the deer population.
When she felt the giant jolt to her car and heard the thunderous thud, Tove Andreassen’s first thought was something like, “Oh, dear.”
“Oh, deer,” would have been equally appropriate.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about 150 people are killed and more than 10,000 are injured in deer accidents every year.
These figures are probably low. Deer accidents are generally under-reported, and besides, as Palmisano noted, the numbers don’t include lots of deer-related accidents.
“Sometimes drivers swerve to miss a deer and end up hitting a tree instead,” she said.