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Close and lucky encounter with a deer

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I was driving to work yesterday morning when the car in front of me narrowly missed hitting a deer crossing a pretty major road in Potomac MD. I slammed brakes, noticed that another deer was still on the right side of the road. It feels like it all happened in slow motion from there. I slowed down a lot as I broke, saw the deer seemingly assessing the situation, and then he crossed. I got down to just slow enough that he literally jumped onto my hood and right off again, continuing to cross the road despite my not yet being at a complete standstill.

The deer was uninjured, more importantly, so was I. I thought that must have made a huge dent in my hood, but it didn't. Two sets of 3" scratches in parallel to reflect the deer's front hooves only. The scratches buffed off.

I guess our hoods can handle some weight, and our brakes are insanely good.

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I was driving to work yesterday morning when the car in front of me narrowly missed hitting a deer crossing a pretty major road in Potomac MD. I slammed brakes, noticed that another deer was still on the right side of the road. It feels like it all happened in slow motion from there. I slowed down a lot as I broke, saw the deer seemingly assessing the situation, and then he crossed. I got down to just slow enough that he literally jumped onto my hood and right off again, continuing to cross the road despite my not yet being at a complete standstill.

The deer was uninjured, more importantly, so was I. I thought that must have made a huge dent in my hood, but it didn't. Two sets of 3" scratches in parallel to reflect the deer's front hooves only. The scratches buffed off.

I guess our hoods can handle some weight, and our brakes are insanely good.

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Damn... sorry to hear that! Glad you?re safe though and your car


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#3
I was driving to work yesterday morning when the car in front of me narrowly missed hitting a deer crossing a pretty major road in Potomac MD. I slammed brakes, noticed that another deer was still on the right side of the road. It feels like it all happened in slow motion from there. I slowed down a lot as I broke, saw the deer seemingly assessing the situation, and then he crossed. I got down to just slow enough that he literally jumped onto my hood and right off again, continuing to cross the road despite my not yet being at a complete standstill.

The deer was uninjured, more importantly, so was I. I thought that must have made a huge dent in my hood, but it didn't. Two sets of 3" scratches in parallel to reflect the deer's front hooves only. The scratches buffed off.

I guess our hoods can handle some weight, and our brakes are insanely good.

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Ouch! Sorry to hear that. For future reference, if there's no crease in the hood and paintless dent repair shop can pull out the dent.
 

robz32

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Glad to hear you are ok. And yes the Brembo's are great!![rockon]
 

ATXStinger

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Glad to hear it all ended well with no significant damages. We have a big deer problem out here in TX too. Whenever I'm driving at night I'll lay down on the horn along areas of the road where I can't see very clearly.
 


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