Deer vs. Car ( A Growing Problem)

For everyone that lives in places such as the Midwestern Untied States, in states including Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota, it is known that deer can pose a hazard for driving. With a large population of deer that flood the Midwest it is inevitable that they might cross paths with not just humans but their cars also. Although there are many deer crossing signs on heavily deep populated areas of a road way, they still seem to surprise us people as they dart across the road in front of our cars. Throughout the Midwest many deer come into contact with high speed moving vehicles each day, which can cause an array of damages done to both the deer, person and car. This type of confrontation can result in injury that can lead up to death of both the human and deer, along with endless damage to a car.

As a person living in a rural area just outside of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I have had my own personal interactions with deer on the road ways. With many close calls with accidents involving deer, I finally was unlucky and actually had my own personal account of hitting a deer a couple of weeks ago.

On a cool and dark morning in March I was driving to my lifting class at 545 am, when a deer came sprinting across the road for deer life. With no time to react while driving 60 miles per hour, the deer was quickly bounced of the right front side of my car. After a involuntary verbal exchange with myself and the deer that some people would categorize as bad English, I pulled over to view both the damage to my car and deer. The deer unfortunately didn’t come out so hot. With my font right side of my car crumpled up I drove my car home. In the passing couple weeks my car was fixed for a large price.

This like many is a story that can be told by the vast majority of the people who live in this overpopulated deer area of the United States. One factor to this deer problem could be a small number of predators that deer have. A solution for this would be to introduce a predator to the deer into the Midwest. Now I am looking for your ideas? Do you want to spare your life and your car? If so than please present some ideas.



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