Deer Strike - Pray nothing like this would happen to any of you. (Not Mine & Not Toyota)

Deer Strike - I pray nothing like this would happen to any of you. (Not Mine & Not Toyota)
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https://youtu.be/GA73TprdTgQ

 

Dang. That is crazy

 

Right?? I'm soo glad that the driver is ok.

Talking about 4Runners I guess its a good thing to have a relatively smaller windshield.

 

I was in Upstate New York this past weekend, had two deer run out in front of me on separate occasions. If I lived out there, I think I would definitely invest in an ARB front bumper or similar.

 

No doubt the front would be protected by them but this was different.

I was thinking about it after my TRD ORP crash. (Finally it ended in a different way me having to start over from zero.)

1. I was thinking about added weight to front especially having alot of weight in front and how it would impact my trail runs. Would it impact the balance of the vehicle.

2. On an accident with human would the steel bumper work against me by law. Sue me for personal injury caused by unsafe bumper for public roads?

 

As you can see from the damage, a steel bumper wouldn't have helped at all as the deer never got near the bumper.

 

We have mule deer in our neighborhood. They’ll mess your ride up.

 

That would not help at all, the deer will clear the hood and slide into the windshield.
Skinny, tall legs with a higher mass on top. Bears are a different story. Moose is a death sentence.
Along my country roads, there is another animal that is almost always lethal, horses.

 

It will protect a lot, I hit a deer on the freeway around 65 Mph with my H2, drove just over it; no damage. I have to admit the deer was not a giant, nevertheless, the impact was significant, the bumper protection saved the day. When I checked the vehicle, nothing bend or damaged.

 

Well, every situation is different. I wasn't referring to this video, I didn't even watch it. I was just thinking in general terms, and my particular instances were at lower speeds.

 

Speaking of horses, I ran into one. While on my motorcycle, a 1975 Kawasaki Police Special. Think of the old TV series CHiPS.
The horse was one of two that ran across the road in front of me, from the left side of the road, while I was at 60 MPH. It was just before dawn, the monday before Thanksgiving, 1992. I saw the bay run out of the side of the road, so I went left to go behind him. Then, the black horse behind him turned the white blaze on his face towards me. That's all I remember until a couple guys found me walking in circles, picking up pieces of the bike. They walked me off the side of the road, where I passed out.
We figured out later that he reared up just before I hit him, rode up the forks and fairing, and scraped me off the back. Me and the bike bounced down the highway for a ways. I know that, because my helmet has a bright yellow stripe down the side, where my head bounced down the centerline. Knocked loose the left retina. It's wadded up like a ball of paper in the bottom of the eyeball, still.
If the horse hadn't reared, I'd probably be dead. As it is, I lost use of my left eye, broke my feet, just kinda cracked the bones, and got hit hard in the heart with the bike's gauge set. Everything healed up, except my eye. It's gone.

So yeah, wild, free-roaming, horses are a deadly dangerous hazard. Beware of them!
Pat☺
BTW: The horse died at the scene, so I won that round. I felt NO pity for him. He thrashed out his life in the ditch for 15 minutes.

 

Deer terrify me. I'm in the Southeast and see them all the time. Many roads here are quite rural which doesn't help. So many stories of friends/acquaintances hitting them and you begin to wonder when it's your turn or someone you care about. I'm an animal lover but I also believe people>deer.