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Old 09-24-2010, 07:24 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hit another deer

Another deer ran in front of my car at 45mph at 4 in the morning. It impacted on the center/left on my car's nose, which flipped and rolled it as its enertia carried it off the left shoulder of my car, then it ran off into the woods. The only damage to my car was a few new dents on the hood (although I'm sure the deer got a few bruises and scrapes in the process). A low rounded nose and and sloped front end is a vast improvement over the standard flat front bumper at greatly reducing damage to the car and injury to the deer. It redirects the collision energies upwards rather than absorbing them into the frame of the car as with conventionally shaped front ends. This is the 6th deer that has impacted my car in the 537,000 miles that I have driven it.

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