Son hit two deer tonight with the van. Not a total loss because the deer here are small. Gonna cost me with deductable......... GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

eat um , not a total loss

Around here thats a good thing, it's hard to get a two for one shot. What's tha Cal. of that Van?

LOL goof

That bites. When the wife did that last year she at least waited a month or so between the two so the body shop could replace all the same parts twice.

At least you have insurance that'll cover it! When I got mine, I totalled one car and had to replace the hood and headlights on the other. With PLPD, so the entire cost was out of pocket.

Deer here are freaken HUGE, too.

I take it your son is ok? That's the main thing!

Deer and elk are a problem for drivers here too.
But you can be parked and have "wildlife damage" to your vehicle
http://komotv.com/stories/41248.htm

Son is indeed ok, thanks for the concern. $2700 for the repairs (I only got to pay $50 under comprehensive deductable).

great to hear your son is fine! sorry to hear about the damage though but Pap had a great idea!! EAT THE DEER....

Can relate Bro...killed more critters with the car than I ever did my rifle.

that's what happens when you are out in the sticks....*runs*

At least you had an opportunity to get some good out of it (meat), last night our neighbor's tree fell on our van and dented the roof.

You should look into getting a tougher vehicle. I hit an almost 400 lb Mule Deer outside of Green River, UT on the way back to Texas in 2000. I was doing around 70 and he stepped right out in front of me, ironically when my Mom and I were talking about how many times I'd zoomed through that patch of road and never seen a deer when I had my Mustang (12 years before).

For all of its size and weight, all it did was bend my bumper and bust a headlight - and I don't have a big-ass ranch-hand bumper or anything. I'm tellin' ya - Dodge Rams are the shiznit!




Oh, and it only ran me $50 deductable off of $1480 damage.

And I drove it home the rest of the way to San Angelo. Granted, with a headlight pointing at the sky... but nonetheless.

i have hit some big deer as well near my cam there all monster about 20mins from my camp because all farm land and i had basicly no damadge that why trucks and nice and so are brush guards lol

I'm not driving yet but I'm sure if I was I'd hit something eventually. Hopefully it's a pole or something & not a living thing like a deer or a person.

Wow. The truck did good with the size weight and speed.

I've hit plenty of "critters", deer, turkeys, whathaveyou....I've also myself have been hit with a car, and I didn't get a scratch on me...could explain why I'm a little screwd in the head though...
otherwise...not so bad

and if you have a big enough truck you can steer it into things...lol

I hit a deer last week. Just did 2 small cracks in my grill, but the deer did a double-back with a 1/2 gainer.

did he stick his landing?

Nope, he lost some major points there. But he was able to run away afterwards, so I had to score him for toughness.

lol

Deer can fly this proves it http://youtube.com/watch?v=rGJ0fJN10YY