[TR] My deer story

[Michael Marr]

I have never hit a deer, but I did drive under one once. One night, on the freeway, the car in front of me hit one and its sloping hood scooped the deer into the air, where it flew over my car and landed about 20 feet behind me. All I saw was a dark shadow flying through the air. Scared the hell out of me, after the fact!

Mike

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On Apr 9, 2015, at 09:04, Dennis Culligan <dctr6 at optonline.net<mailto:dctr6 at optonline.net>> wrote:

   Returning from the vintage races at Watkins Glen in my TR6 a few years back, driving on a two lane road with a friend and his wife in their TR6 behind me. We were doing about 55 mph when I saw the huge doe coming from the opposite side of the road at a gallop. The traffic coming the other way slowed to miss her (which meant I couldn't go left) and it looked like she was going to run right into the driver's side of my car.  I hit the accelerator as hard as I could and steered over onto the right shoulder and waited for the thud. When it didn't come, I looked in my rear view mirror and watched her feet fly by - she jumped and cleared the trunk of the TR6, much to my surprise and the delight of the folks behind me.  We pulled over and had a laugh about it and then motored on, but with a more wary eye on the roadside.
Dennis Culligan / 1976 TR6 CF57948U


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