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[Mikademus]

Nice dinner with parents and gf. Driving home in my parents' car, all four of us in it. It is pitch black here at ten o'clock. Two cars behind me, I think they're not keeping their distance enough. Three dears suddenly appear on the road standing transfixed, glaring at me with their headlight-dazed luminous reflective eyes. I have half a second before impact, tops. This is what I thought in that flash on an instance: (1) I can't apply full breaks because I will not be able to steer then, they're too close so I can't bring the car to a full stop and I'd still hit them, and I will risk stockpiling the other cars behind me causing a compound accident. (2) I can't take full evasive manoeuvres since I am travelling to fast and will risk losing control of the car and will risk being hit be the cars following me. Split-second decision: I went with a hard break and three-quarter evasive, taking the leftmost deer on the right wheel house. It worked, I only hit one deer and managed to take it on the rear flank bouncing it off rather than onto the car (if you take game full-on they will bounce and crash up onto the wind shield), I retained full control of the car, I didn't cause an accident, and we're all alive and uninjured. Stopping and inspecting the car it had suffered minimal damages, but it will still be at least a €500 repair changing the entire front spoiler (the car is insured, otherwise it would be way more expensive). Technically, I think I did a textbook-perfect example of handling the situation. I should be proud.

Emotionally though, I feel I should have done more, managed to avoid hitting it completely (even though that would have been all but impossible); I feel guilty about perhaps (probably) killing that deer (which is stupid since I eat meat, but that meat is not (perhaps) suffering in a ditch right now!); and feel guilty about--silly as it might seem--causing damage to a car not my own (my parents shouldn't have to shoulder my economical responsibilities by now).

Bah, why I'm writing this here I don't know... Perhaps because real-life is not a game, and here everything have real outcomes? Perhaps I just needed to share and hear I did well, I dunno.

[Glaiel-Gamer]

hire a lawyer, that deer's family's gonna sue.

[thatshelby]

You should have swerved and made the people behind you deal with it,

[im9today]

You should have swerved and made the people behind you deal with it,

you arent even old enough to drive

[Mikademus]

You should have swerved and made the people behind you deal with it,

A full evasive was impossible, I was travelling to fast. To swerve you have to reduce speed enough and then I'd already have hit them (at least two deer, not only one), I swerved as much as was possible.

[thatshelby]

You should have swerved and made the people behind you deal with it,

you arent even old enough to drive

You're only nine

(And yes, I am)

[im9today]

but you dont

[Noah!]

Dang, that sucks. I'm not even gonna try to give any advice about the situation, because to me you did a splendid job of handling it, and within those time restraints you can't really do much but just do, and outside of professional stunt drivers who spend years training their responses to knee-jerk stimuli, I'd be safe to say that you did the best that could really be done.

But you know that already.

So instead I'd like to just send out a hug to ya, if that's alright. Guilt and regret sucks, even more so when you know it's somewhat irrational. But I wish you the best of luck in getting through it. (hug!)

[C.D Buckmaster]

As master of bucks, I'm disappointed in your slaying of one of my kind.

Awful puns aside, I don't I would have handled much better, I probably would have somehow managed to kill all three deer and end up in a ditch.

[DavidCaruso]

Guess the animal's life...



...wasn't so deer to you after all.

YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

But no really, shit sucks. You probably handled it the best you could have, though.

[Mikademus]

Thanks guys, yeah shit sucks. Sorry for ramming your namesake, Buckmaster! I was calm as a rock at the time and about an hour after and then the after-quakes trembles started. Now I've just begun to relax again.

Hugs, Noah, thanks!

Now I'm just waiting for the "we put a deer in your deer so you can hit deer when you hit deer" comment

[Adamski]

Did you have to report it?

Here in the UK if you hit a deer you're supposed report it, or find some means of making sure the deer is put out of any pain/misery. Be it you're a hunter and shoot it yourself (though it would likely be illegal if you then took it's body for meat, like it is if you hit a pheasant), or contact a local warden/grounds keeper/RSPCA.

I had a drama teacher who's car was attacked by a large stag while she was waiting at a train crossing. It reared up at her bonnet and trampled the car with its front hooves, then ran off into a field on the other side of the road. Kinda reminded me of the Ring 2

[starsrift]

You deered to kill a king's dare?

[leonelc29]

i can't even imagine what i able to do at that moment

[Mipe]

Apparently this fine gentleman shall have a fine meal: http://uniquedaily.com/2011/10/man-eats-roadkill-for-30-years/#.TqJ_4HJBv38