11-22-2018, 11:35 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to all !
LoveChild, I had the same thing happen with a deer:
Dusk on Memorial Day 2011, traveling east on I94 just west of Madison, WI. It’s a busy stretch, 3 lanes wide, and everyone doing at least 70. We were on our way to Milwaukee.
I’m in the far left lane, and I look up ahead into one of the spaces in the median (I’m assuming it’s there for police and emergency vehicles to turn around).
There’s a deer kind of hopping in this space.
Instantly I wonder to myself, “How did he get there? He’d have had to cross three lanes without getting hit.”
In the next second, as I’m watching him, I begin to brace, as I just know he’s going to jump in front of my car.
Sure enough, jumps right out in front of us.
Impact is square in the grill of our 2005 Chev Tahoe (glad it was a full size SUV) and he slides under the truck, back into the other traffic.
From the moment I noticed him, until impact, couldn’t have been more than 3 seconds.
Airbags deploy, our grill is toast, I lose power, but somehow am able to make it to the shoulder without getting hit by anyone.
The carcass is back in the middle lane, and there are no subsequent accidents as people try to avoid it.
All fluids ran out of our vehicle, and we have no power, so now we’re sitting on the shoulder as semis are blowing by at 70-75mph.
Took the Hwy Patrol forever to respond to our call, and a wrecker arrived probably 30 mins after impact.
My wife still says those are the scariest moments of her life, as traffic blows by at such speeds.
Anyway, glad you’re out of your incident with just damage to your car.
LoveChild, I had the same thing happen with a deer:
Dusk on Memorial Day 2011, traveling east on I94 just west of Madison, WI. It’s a busy stretch, 3 lanes wide, and everyone doing at least 70. We were on our way to Milwaukee.
I’m in the far left lane, and I look up ahead into one of the spaces in the median (I’m assuming it’s there for police and emergency vehicles to turn around).
There’s a deer kind of hopping in this space.
Instantly I wonder to myself, “How did he get there? He’d have had to cross three lanes without getting hit.”
In the next second, as I’m watching him, I begin to brace, as I just know he’s going to jump in front of my car.
Sure enough, jumps right out in front of us.
Impact is square in the grill of our 2005 Chev Tahoe (glad it was a full size SUV) and he slides under the truck, back into the other traffic.
From the moment I noticed him, until impact, couldn’t have been more than 3 seconds.
Airbags deploy, our grill is toast, I lose power, but somehow am able to make it to the shoulder without getting hit by anyone.
The carcass is back in the middle lane, and there are no subsequent accidents as people try to avoid it.
All fluids ran out of our vehicle, and we have no power, so now we’re sitting on the shoulder as semis are blowing by at 70-75mph.
Took the Hwy Patrol forever to respond to our call, and a wrecker arrived probably 30 mins after impact.
My wife still says those are the scariest moments of her life, as traffic blows by at such speeds.
Anyway, glad you’re out of your incident with just damage to your car.