It's not that West Virginia's can't drive....

These are run of the mill WV road pictures.










I.can see qhy our insurance premiums are so high.

I personally have never hit a deer while.driving.( knock on qood) but I know people qho have hit deer multiple times while driving.

I guess there's some luck involved.

Have you ever hit a deer in the state you live in, or in any state for that matter.

Nope! (knock on wood), but it's gonna happen when the woods grow right up to the road surface with no shoulder so you get zero warning.

I think quite a few collisions come from drivers looking at the deer that crossed instead of looking followers.

Funny you bring up insurance premiums. The better half seemed to think State Farm was the bombdigity, while I had Progressive. They were way cheaper than anyone else when I bought my truck. Incidentally, we have only been together for a bit over 10 years and we are not, officially, married and keep our finances separate. Well, we concluded, with all the policy discounts available, it made sense to be with the same company. Switched everything to State Farm and within 2 months they jacked the premiums on our 3 cars $100/mo. I wasn't paying anywhere near $100/mo for full coverage on my truck when I was the lone person on my policy. Suddenly, she had a change of heart and checked into what it would cost if all our vehicles were insured with Progressive. Well, it's $163/mo less than what State Farm wanted for identical coverage. Sorry for the diversion...

Lived in Northern Virginia, two collisions. The first, a basket 8-pt ran into my truck, the second, a young 4 or 6 pt ran into a friend’s car when I was a passenger. I’d prefer not to experience either one again.

Only hit two deer in my lifetime.One in Virginia and one in Maine

I’ve probably had 20+ collisions with deer. I know when I was working, I killed 14 with my company trucks. I was driving about 40,000 miles a year, traveling to the 20+ coal mines we were operating. I’d leave the house at 5:00 am , and deer were all over the roads. Western Pa is the roadkill capital of the country. I was driving 3/4 Chevys that rode fairly high….sometimes I’d hit a deer head on and they’d go under the truck. One morning, I hit two deer about 10 miles apart. I never had any bad damage, always could keep driving.

Since I retired eleven years ago, I’ve only hit one deer. It was on I 80, middle of the day, going 70 mph in a Subaru Forester. Luckily it caught the front fender, rather than hitting it straight on.

Y'all hit deer every 1/4 mile on 35 so it's not the road side. They're just too small and up can't see em.

I've had 4 deer hit me so far. Only one did damage. I was basically at a stop for the other three.

I've hit one in my life, here in MS. It jumped off a high bank right in front of me with no warning. Never saw it until it was 2 inches in front of my car.

I work with a girl that has hit FOUR deer on the way to work in 2 years.

Ive hit 4 or 5. It’s been a while, back when I lived in areas where it wasnt uncommon to see 100 together at night

Only one deer for me,but i saw a car in front of me hit a bear,that i would
guess weighed 3-4 hundred lbs. She had to get towed to the nearest town.
Lucky she wasn't hurt!

I have hit seven or eight in last 30 years. Wife has hit three or four

My wife and i drive to south carolina from the buffalo area every october. The year after the covid lockdowns we counted 73 roadkills on the 14 hr trip home.
PA always has the worst carnage.

I had a deer hit me. It jumped off a bank and rammed into my Tacoma right in front of the back tire. Thanks giving night in 1998

Never hit one but have had some very close misses!
My road has a lot of deer crossing it, when my son lived here he would only drive about 25 mph down the rd, lol

Most roadkill deer I've ever seen was in PA.

More road pics

That's how just about every road in MS looks too except about half the trees are pines instead of just hardwoods.

Cant hardly drive fast enough on those type roads to hit a deer,

We have thousands of miles of roads like that. It's when I'm doing 60 to 70 I get nervous.

Once the corn is up. I try to not drive from a little before sunset and for a couple of hours afterwards. I have had many close calls, but only hit two deer. One broke a $6.00 plastic piece around the headlight on a Crown Victoria. It also broke its back. The other one pushed my right side mirror closed, but didn't damage anything. I've been lucky.

Keith