The wife was attacked this am on her way to yoga class.
The doe caught her right at the S logo on the vent thingey on
driver's side. Head & neck on windshield right before her eyes,
torso down the panel before drivers door & driver's door.
She estimates somewhere between 55-65 before she hit the ABS
(really hard!) & whoa'd it down by probably half before impact.
Couldn't move more to the shoulder because of the drop off.

The deer split, total damage to the car is $300.ooish.

The little S-vent thing was filled up with hair & the seat was filled up with,
well never mind......(j/k)

Cris

 

She is very lucky.

I hit a deer with my Jetta and did $4000 worth of damage to it. Fortunately it was still driveable because I was in the middle of no where in Utah at the time.

 

Sounds like the deer made it?

JK

 

sorry to here about the hit and run by the deer.I have to dodge bambi's almost every day,Spend more time scaning ditchs and bush line than on coming traffic. My big concern is hammering on the binders and those behind not being able to stop as fast as the MINI,Miss the deer and then get it up the rump by a mini van,suv thing
:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
and driving around dead critters keeps one on their toes also

 

No injuries (to your wife) and only $300? Count your blessings.

 

$300 worth of damage after hitting a deer dead on at 65 MPH??


Doesn't sound right....

 

>>$300 worth of damage after hitting a deer dead on at 65 MPH??

 

>>>>$300 worth of damage after hitting a deer dead on at 65 MPH??


Lucky her.

 

Glad she's OK. Do you know if those whistles that you mount on the bumper (or hopefully hidden underneath somewhere) work?

 

I have those whistles on my wife's Subaru and the deer look and run away. I can personally vouche for that. Saw it with my own eyes!

Jason

 

>>I have those whistles on my wife's Subaru and the deer look and run away. I can personally vouche for that. Saw it with my own eyes!

Maybe deer are just scared of Scoobys.
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Midnight- '03 indi blue MCS, learning all the bad habits of a proper British car from Rusty- '75 MGB

 

Yeah, she was real lucky....
I looked for the deer as best I could (in slippers),
but I didn't climb down into the ravine..
It happened like five minutes from home.
I was stunned when I saw the car at how little damage there really was.
We love deer (besides their deliciousness factor) & would never try & hurt one,
so she was really bummed out that she'd done some car hunting..
I hit one in my 242 Volvo square dead nuuts straight on a few years back
& had to put it down (the deer not the Volvo)....

Real drag! SCMINI says they don't have a body shop, so we're sticking
local for the easy repairs...

Cris

 

ask your dealership who they get there body work done at.. you'll want to find soemone who is familair with minis.... they have some tricky body paneling. BTW did the airbags not deploy?

 

I've had cars with those whistles,did not seem to do much for deer,and they broke off easy If I see one I get on the horn making noise ,they tend to stand still at least,

 

Nope the airbags didn't deploy. Might not have been enuff of an impact (although I'm sure the deer might want to argue that)...

I view deer whistles to be the same category as those induction "tornadoes"
or penile enhancement supplements.... SMOKE~

Cris

 

$300.00 does not seem like a lot of doe.

 

Hundreds of comics out of work........

 

It's still $300 bucks...


(sorry... couldn't resist...)

JK

 

fondest memory of my childhood was a family trip to the beach. Mom and dad just bought a new min van. On the same day they picked it up from the dealer we loaded it up headed for the beach. no more than four hours later, a deer jumped out of the road and added an aftermarket fur lined radiator to the min van. I also picked up some new vocabulary words that I wasnt allowed to use until much later in life. That deer took the whole front end off a min van, your wife is lucky that it only did $300 damage to a mini.

 

Karma~ A few years ago her & I fed domesticated ducks & geese that had been dropped off at Carter Lake all winter....
Cris

 

Did you keep the deer?.....Have some great "Road Kill" recipes for venison I could pass along.......