I feel so sorry for all the deer here in Michigan; if they are not killed by people with guns they are killed by people with cars.
I think that I may have mentioned in one of my previous blogs that I drive for a delivery company.....so....needless to say I see a lot of things happening on the road everyday. And, the most that I see is dead deer. There is whole deer and then there is the poor deer that is completely ground into hamburger.
I see dented cars that are at the side of the road after hitting a deer and then I see no cars anywhere in sight but the deer is very evident that it died a horrific death.
I understand that we do have an over population of deer and our state joked about making the deer our state animal instead of our state bird the Robin.
This past Friday on the 16th of November....which is one day after hunting season opened up, I was driving East on I-96 and then West on I-96 coming back to the company....which is over 300 miles round trip, and I came across a few police cars that were stopped with a few different cars and each one of them cars had been involved in a deer crash. A couple of the cars were quite damaged and with them damaged cars were deer insides and outsides so strewn across the highway that they were barely recognized.
Secondly....I was fueling up and started talking to a tow truck driver and he told me he was just returning from a fatal accident that happened on a highway that travels south through Michigan. He said and I quote...."I just came from a fatal accident where a woman had a deer run out in front of her car and she slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting the deer....the deer was a 5-point Buck. She managed to not hit the deer and saved his life just long enough to loose it on the other side of the highway....and in doing so, someone hit the back end of her car going 70+ MPH and killed her on the spot." Then the tow truck driver told me he had asked the police man if he could keep the antlers from the deer and the police man told him he could not have them as for he promised to give them to the other tow truck driver, who picked up the car from the other side of the highway, the one that actually hit the deer and took its life.
Now in saying all this....I am the type that would do her best not to hit a deer or any other animal that I see on the highway....but sometimes you just don't have a chance to get out of the way.
Later in the night I was driving home from work....which is about a 40 minute drive and the fog was so heavy that I had to drive 35-40mph on the highway just to get home safely.....but.....the whole time I was driving all I could picture was a deer is going to jump out in front of me and then I am going to get very hurt in the small car I'm driving, because how do you see anything especially the deer in the thick fog.
I know we have to do something about the deer population because they are claiming lots of lives, but when my town tried to shoot off some deer and donate the meat to local food pantries, they just kept multiplying. There are also small wire fences that go the entire length of all the major highways but they are to short to keep the deer from jumping over them.
Don't get me wrong I love all GOD'S animals and it saddens me so much to see these deer strewn over 50 feet and nothing left of them, every piece of deer is pounded into the pavement of the highways over and over and what is scary enough is the splatter of blood almost the entire stretch of every highway.
Please be very careful while driving and try not to let someone tailgate you because if you do find yourself braking for any animal it might be the last time you live to do that. ( Tailgating with be another story for later)
If you are a believer of Christ please pray for everyone on the highway and for the animals to stay off the highway......so all can live.
I wish they would clean up the carcases that way I wouldn't have such high anxiety driving over all of their strewn out innards.
Please don't swerve or slam on your brakes if you have an animal in your path.....only if you have no traffic around you, can you attempt such a thing and in a slow safe manner. I know what you may be thinking....I'm afraid to hit this animal it might kill me by going through my windshield or it's going to destroy my vehicle or both; those are my exact thoughts as well.....and knock on wood I haven't hit an animal yet.
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