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It can result in deer fatality, property damage, and human injury or death. The number of accidents, injuries, and fatalities varies from year to year and region. Each year in the United States, deer–vehicle collisions resulted in at least 59,000 human injuries and 440 human fatalities. [1]
AAA Northeast is warning drivers that it's the busiest season of the year for crashes between cars and deer.
Data are for the year 2021. Death data are from NHTSA, [1] mileage figures are from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics [2] and population data are from the US Census. [3] Per billion vehicle miles, South Carolina had the highest death rate while Massachusetts had the lowest. Mississippi had the most deaths per capita while Rhode Island had ...
Extrapolating these data nationwide, Merritt Clifton (editor of Animal People Newspaper) estimated that the following animals are being killed by motor vehicles in the United States annually: 41 million squirrels, 26 million cats, 22 million rats, 19 million Virginia opossums, 15 million raccoons, 6 million dogs, and 350,000 deer. [20]
A multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 86 in Big Flats Tuesday evening snarled traffic and sent several people to the hospital with injuries. The driver and sole occupant of a Ford SUV traveling on I ...
If your car was only worth $4,000 at the time of an accident and you're looking at $4,500 in body work to fix it, it doesn't make sense for your insurer to pay the higher amount when it can ...
Deer populations may reach the carrying capacity, leading to an increase in human and deer interactions. [1] These interactions can result in car accidents, crop damage, property damage, Lyme disease transmission, and much more. [1] These species interaction occur both in rural and urban areas where population of deer come into contact.
Among the nation's states, Kansas drivers are 20th most likely to hit a deer or other large animal, says a survey by insurance company State Farm.