[basjoos]

But, unless you were inattentive to what was coming up ahead of you on the road, you would never hit a deer that was facing directly towards or away from the vehicle. Most car-deer collisions occur at short notice when deer shoot out from the side of the road and so are oriented at or close to a right angle to your car.

The deer I hit wasn't jumping to get over the car because in the process of the impact, it rolled 180 degrees, so it was upside-down as it passed out of the line of sight of my windshield. And it presumably kept on rotating as it passed over my car and hopefully came close to landing on its feet (it happened at night so I couldn't see the landing out my rear view). At least it wasn't there and there was no blood on the road after I got turned around and back to the collision site.