The time of death was almost 12:30 a.m.
I'm driving home from work and I'm cruising at 30 m.p.h. on Jumping Brook Road (a residential road near my job). As I'm approaching a fork in the road, I notice something moving on the dimly lit street.
It was a deer.
It scampered across the road (about 5 feet in front of my car) after I slammed on my brakes. After 10 seconds, I thought the coast was clear. I started driving again and less than 50 feet later another deer dashed across the road. This time I swerved to my left and slammed on my breaks even harder.
This deer was about a foot or so from the intensive care unit.
A long sigh and a deep breath later, I accelerated again. I almost got to the next stoplight when I heard a loud boom. I thought someone had shot at my car. Considering that I almost killed two deers, I'm thinking their angry hunters are after me now.
Deer No. 3 wasn't so lucky.
The last deer slammed head first into the right side of my car. I stopped immediately. I got out the car and walked around to my passenger's side. I saw the small dent that the impact left but as I got off my knees, I looked back for the deer.
No blood. No wounded whimpers. No deer.
Apparently, deer No. 3 still had enough energy (and incredibly four strong legs) to make it across the street into the forest area. After shaking my head, letting out a longer sigh, I got back in my car. I stayed in the middle of the street for like another minute.
I looked left...then right...then left again....then right again...then honked my horn...before I put the car in drive.
7 comments:
Bambi was in full effect tonight!
Don't u just HATE deer states...and them suckas gangsta too. They know they on the road, they know cars kill, but they still be chillin and boltin across the street like they got armor on!!!
I'm just glad that you're ok... I've heard incidents where the deer ends up okay but the human dies.
God bless!
Be thankful your okay. I hit one deer in my lifetime and the way it hopped off it looks like I broke a leg. They are known to total cars.
Wow. You need to watch yourself. Now till November is deer mating season, and when they feel like mating they roam. And when they roam they run into cars. I'm dead serious. Check with the NJ State troopers and see if deer-car collisions don't spike every autumn.
You're lucky to be alive, man...Now u need to go out and write a story about the horny roaming deer causing traffic accidents.
I'm not even joking...
When I went to prep school I would sometimes have to wait for whoever to pick me up. I didn't have a cell, and would walk down to the guardhouse to make a call. I'll be damn if I didn't almost get run over by a damn dear every time.
@solitaire and ladynay ....
Yes...I'm alright. I'm still a little in shock and I drive even slower on that road now.
@morgancampbell...you trying to create more work for me? lol. I'll pitch that story to the news side...I'm up to my ears in fall preview stuff.
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