Hey guys, not how I wanted to make my first post on here but yesterday I was driving my 2003 mini cooper and there was a deer in the middle of the road, I swerved to avoid it and ended up going into the ditch and then back onto the road and flipped my car from the passenger side onto the drivers side.

I was probably going 45-50 mph at the time of the crash.

These are the only pictures of it that I have right now, I'm calling the insurance company later today, but I'm assuming its totaled? The damage isn't as severe as I thought it would be, but its still pretty bad. I know the radiator is shot because fluid was leaking all over the road and the roof on the rear passenger side is caved in a bit which would make replacing the window difficult. Any thoughts/opinions?

I will say that the car took the hit like a champ, it definitely lived up it its safety standards.

 

totalled

 

Oh it's totaled. Glad your ok

 

I'm going to have to agree with the previous two posts.

 

Totaled, wouldn't be shocked to see it as a rebuilt on Craigslist, noting minor accident repair. Glad you walked away clean.

 

Glad to hear you are ok.

Time to settle on an amount for the car and get back into another R50/R53... hehe

 

I know it's hard to fight intuition but if ever given the choice again, take out the animal. I know that sounds cruel but hitting an animal is a comprehensive claim under your insurance and is considered non-chargeable by most insurance companies. Having a single car roll over is a collision loss and will more than likely affect your rates if your insurance company is like most.

 

There is some risk with doing that.

https://www.google.com/search?q=deer...hield&tbm=isch

 

That's what I was thinking...

 

Definitely a risk, deer kill a lot of people.

 

mega totaled. If you see roof damage on a car, there's no way fixing it would be feasible on anything but some megamillion dollar ferrari or priceless bugatti type 37

Glad you are safe, and for future reference you should ALWAYS hit the animal in the road. I'm a medic, and I've seen a lot more corpses from swerving to avoid animals than from actually hitting said animals. Moose/deer can go through windscreens, but a tree is always going to win, a moose doesn't always win.

The only "swerved off the road" I ever saw end well was a guy who hit a tree stump that was very ramp shaped, the car (mid 2000's impala) went on its left two wheels dukes of hazard style, and proceeded to narrowly pass between about 15 trees at 80mph that would have killed him. Car came to a rest so gently the airbags didn't even pop. We still had to cut the doors off.