Killed a deer, now I feel bad

[One]

So this morning I was making my normal route into work, in front I noticed a car going slowly. Obviously this confused me, I started to concentrate on the car and incoming traffic to work out why he was slowing down. I couldn't work it out, by this point I was starting to slow down then from just to the left this dear came into my path, I slammed the breaks on but it was no use. I hit the deer square on, it bounced off and went across the road in a dead flat spin.

Now I feel bad If I had tried harder to work out why the car front going slowly i might have seen deer. Or if I had sat down for 30 seconds longer the deer would have made safe passage across the road.

Also if I just knocked it out it could be suffering in severe pain which is even worse.

 

[Phemo]

Sucks but it happens. Was there much damage to your car?

 

[Yaayuh!]

That answers your question about why the car was going slow then..

Much damage to the car?

 

[Haggisman]

You should only feel bad if you wasted all that venison. you DID pick it up didn't you?

 

[Rybo89]

If it was safe to stop i would have stopped to check out the damage and to see if the deer was dead or not as it would tick at me all day wondering.

And Haggisman, would you? Venison tastes ******* disgusting, blahhh! I am a massive meat fan at that aswell.

 

[wingman]

Bambi!!

 

[acemastr]

You should only feel bad if you wasted all that venison. you DID pick it up didn't you?

Illegal to pick it up if you hit it, but the person behind you could.

I imagine it died nigh on instantly, put it down to something that happens and it didn't suffer.

 

[NathWraith]

should have got out and finished the deer off. I swear someone on here had to do that before? scarysquirrel?

 

[Housey]

Never nice to kill animals, I must take out a few rabbits and squirrels every year and I still hate it. Ive learnt NEVER look in the rear view mirror, just push on.

 

[One]

If it was safe to stop i would have stopped to check out the damage and to see if the deer was dead or not as it would tick at me all day wondering.

And Haggisman, would you? Venison tastes ******* disgusting, blahhh! I am a massive meat fan at that aswell.

Well there were cars behind me, it was on a tight road with nowhere to stop so I just carried on my way.

It is going to annoy the Hell out of me, but even if I did stop, I don't know how to take a deers pulse!

I haven't been able to look at my car properly because when I got work it was tipping it down with rain, from a meter back it looked perfectly normal though, no obvious damage.

The fact there is no blatant damage is what makes me concerned it might not have had a clean death

 

[Greenja]

I once ran over a pheasant, it exploded in a plume of feathers in my rear view mirror.

 

[One]

Never nice to kill animals, I must take out a few rabbits and squirrels every year and I still hate it. Ive learnt NEVER look in the rear view mirror, just push on.

When I hit it I didn't see it and assumed I was about to run over it, then i saw it spinning in front of me going forwards, in this case would have been better looking the rear view.

Makes me truly wonder how people can happily go hunting :/

 

[the_r_sole]

unlucky on that, lots of accidents with deer around here, usually brakes don't help, it only luck that will see you miss!
If you hit it square on and were still able to drive your car I would guess that the deer isn't dead- you'd be amazed at what they walk away from...
(trying to find a picture of my mates transit that one went into)

 

[vanpeebles]

It's better to hit an animal than to swerve into the path of an on coming car (unless its an elephant or a big dinosaur)

I hit a partridge once in my old 156 and it got caught up in the scoop bit at the bottom. I drove all the way to work with it in hanging from the front then had to get some gloves and bin liners to remove it. Grim stuff!

 

[the_r_sole]

It's better to hit an animal than to swerve into the path of an on coming car (unless its an elephant or a big dinosaur)

I hit a partridge once in my old 156 and it got caught up in the scoop bit at the bottom. I drove all the way to work with it in hanging from the front then had to get some gloves and bin liners to remove it. Grim stuff!

haha, did the same with a seagull a few years ago, was trying to make a ferry so booting it along and then caught a seagul in the front grille but couldn't stop! pulled up into the car park for a very busy ferry with it hanging there - got some looks that one

 

[Haggisman]

And Haggisman, would you? Venison tastes ******* disgusting, blahhh! I am a massive meat fan at that aswell.

Probably not, as killing the animal by hitting it with a car would likely spoil the meat.

Shame, as I do love venison (especially venison, sage and red wine burgers fresh off the BBQ, with grilled wild mushrooms and blue cheese...mmmm.... )

 

[acemastr]

Managed to hit 2 pigeons in one lunch time 4 mile drive once, feathers went EVERYWHERE.

 

[mike gunnz]

I obliterated a duck last summer which waddled out in front of me when I was doing around 60 on a dual carriageway in my ST220, a quite spectacular explosion of feathers ensued and the damn thing cracked my front bumper. Annoying thing was that I was on my way to do a p/x deal for my current car but fortunately the buyer never noticed the crack.

Also ran a cat over about 20 years ago - I can still feel/hear the sound it made as it got shredded underneath my Ford Granada. As a cat lover that affected me for many months afterwards, I was absolutely gutted.

 

[Nightglow]

If it was a roe deer, I would have took it home & butchered it, very tasty venison.

 

[randal]

D'oh. A deer? A female deer?

Sorry, couldn't resist. Sorry to hear OP, and hope the animal's display of Darwinism doesn't stay with you for too long.