70mph+deer= teh suck

[Anand]

on the second look at your car,

the other option you have is to buy it back and part it out, if it ends up costing you too much money.

since your car is a SE... you can part it out and make a lot of money to buy you another S14?

just a thought.

[s14det]

I will let you know if I want the steering wheel. There is a junk yard that has 2-4 240's. couple of them have good front ends. So I can hopefully get all the parts from them. I have a person that will paint the whole car, just have to pay for the paint. I should be able to rebuild it for 2k-3k or so. Keeping fingers crossed to see what the insurance wil do. I live in Ok where 240's are not popular yet, so junk yards that have them are still intact.

[mmatl16]

dude that sucks so much. i hate deer. i hit a tree in my old civic dodging a freakin deer.

[Japanese Steel]

Here's a pic of a deer whistle.

https://asp1.secure-shopping.c...0,100

No deer on Long Island?

http://www.newsday.com/other/s...promo

Estimated 20,000 in 2003. What part of LI are you from?

[s14det]

Well it is going to take $8360 to fix the car. Will have to wait till Monday to find out what I can work out with the insurance. I can fix the car myself for aaallloott cheaper. Just need someone to do the Rad support and such. The rest I can fix.

[skydragoness]

Sorry about your mishap, that truly does suck, and like TurboKA37 said, it can be unavoidable (to an extent). Seriously though, try to avoid at all costs driving at night in deer-infested areas, get brighter headlights/fog lights so that you can see their eyes on the sides of the road before they jump and just stop. That's what i do, if i see two shiny green peepers in the brush when i'm driving-- i slow down to 5mph and put on my hazards to alert anyone that may be coming up the road until the deer goes to the other side. But i tell you, there are moments when you can't avoid it and only luck is on your side at that point. I was driving on a backroad at night at 20mph or so, and a deer ran up from the brush on my right and ran along side my car for a few seconds then turned back into the brush where he came from-- that was a CLOSE call, because i couldn't see his eyes from the side of the car.

I don't nearly feel as bad as much for deer as i do for the natural predators that used to keep their numbers down that we killed off in colonial times (animals like cougars and wolves were commonplace throughout the US). It's nonsensical to lament on the deers' plight at this point, it makes more sense for our states to take the iniative and set up sanctuarys with deer-proof fences so that humans and deer don't have to meet but can live in the same general area. Such a simple thing, but the government doesn't want to spend money on (unless there are enough accident fatalities to justify it of course).

[PantherRacer]

And they aren't gonna count the deer fatalities, however sad it is, why is it that nothing is done until the situation get's out of hand? just once someone should be convinced to take a preventative approach to a problem as soon as (or before) it occurs instead of trying to put a band-aid on it and in the end it just get's worse

[rudee023]

Damn, didn't think a deer could do that much damage but then again it was at 70mph. Imagine if you hit a moose, those things are huge!!!

[eliterit]

deer are pretty dumb though. A friend of mine at work said that he almost hit a deer, but he slammed on his brakes and barely didnt hit him, but a second later his deer buddy plowed into the side of his passenger door denting the crap out of it.. LOL,, i couldnt stop laughing when he told me that story..

sorry about the car though.