Interesting stat from Kip Adams @ QDMA

[jjas]

In the U.S. we hit nearly 1.3 million deer annually with our vehicles. That's about 1 in every 23 deer alive today will get hit this year. That's a crazy statistic. Spring (fawning) and fall (rut) are the worst times for accidents so slow down and be safe.

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Jul 7, 2017 8:35:08 GMT -5 jjas said:

In the U.S. we hit nearly 1.3 million deer annually with our vehicles. That's about 1 in every 23 deer alive today will get hit this year. That's a crazy statistic. Spring (fawning) and fall (rut) are the worst times for accidents so slow down and be safe.

Those are the reported deer accidents. I'm sure it is doubled.  I have hit three and only one reported. The other two I fixed the vehicle myself.  
I once heard on deer talk show a deer vehicle accident every 1.5 seconds.  One of the top predators to Deer

[Russ Koon]

I'm always suspect of numbers, especially ones seen on the 'net.

I think the comic who said that 86.7 % of internet numbers were made up on the spot, nailed it pretty well.

I've said for years now that the car-deer accident numbers were likely inflated by the number of young drivers who slid off the road and into a fence post while honing their road racing skills or testing their ability to drive while under the influence of something, and the deer were a scapegoat that would cause less trouble at home or with the insurance company. I know I wasn't the only kid at my workplace who had a dented roof and broken windshield on a car that was blamed on a "falling tree branch" instead of the slow rollover it had suffered a couple nights before.

But if the insurance industry wants to use the high deer numbers to get higher season limits, and the hunting goods industry wants to use the same numbers to promote the wisdom of more weaponry and equipment sales, and we hunters enjoy getting that "bonus" doe tag, who's to argue with the accuracy?I realize that der densities are very different in some areas than others, and that those areas change over just a few years, but I feel VERY sure that my deer sightings and carcass sighting along the roadsides of the same route I have travelled the last fifty years are a small fraction of what they were in the 1990's.

[Woody Williams]

The insurance companies use the higher numbers to do one thing - raise our Comprehensive Rates. They don't care About the number of deer and vehicle accidents as they will not absorb the costs, they just pass it on to their customers. They WILL make a profit..