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Originally Posted by 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.
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That's tempting but perhaps unwarranted conclusion.
They don't all cross the road at 90* and some small percentage of those racing across the road notice your headlights and make sharp adjustment to their line of travel.
Also, one may be highly attentive to the road ahead and yet simply traveling faster (45 mph) than is safe for conditions (a herd of 15-20 deer wandering aimlessly across the roadway just at the far side of the sharp crest of a small hill). I've never hit a deer under those circumstances, but the opportunity has presented itself.