Casper Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 http://nbc4i.com/2016/06/04/one-dead-after-motorcyclist-hits-deer/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2talltim Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 This is why I don't commute to work on my bike. I dodge the little bastards just about every morning on my road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 City people thinking deer are cute cuddly creatures of the wood. Rural people that hate deer and everything they stand for, except for the free meat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 It's not stated in the article, but you have to wonder if gear might have helped. Deer can be in the way in an eye blink, then of course they freeze. Scary stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx3vfr Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 12 hours ago, what said: City people thinking deer are cute cuddly creatures of the wood. Rural people that hate deer and everything they stand for, except for the free meat. Oh, it is far from free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricer1 Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 I hit a deer in April 2008 and had all the gear, FF helmet, armored jacket, gloves, boots. Pitch dark at 9:00PM on a two lane road with poor lighting. Hit the deer then a mailbox, the front wheel stopped in a drain ditch and I landed about 15 feet from the bike in the drain ditch. Bike was totaled (see photos), I had broken collar bone, broken shoulder blade, a few stiches from a jacket grommet cutting into my arm and a bunch of bruises. ATGATT for me, if I didn't have the gear, can't believe I would have escaped with minimal medical problems. According to Wisconsin DOT 2% of car-deer accidents end up in human fatalities versus 84.9% of motorcycles-deer encounters end up in fatalities. BTW, the nurses and doc's in the ER at Metro General cheered when they found I had wore all the gear, a week earlier a MC-deer fatality occurred with a rider without the gear. I beat the odds. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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