Car/deer accidents at record pace

  • Vehicle damage from deer accidents adds up quickly, especially when airbags are involved. The damage to this truck waiting to be repaired at Bingham Body and Tow could come to $6,000, estimated owner Bruce Braden, left. Braden’s son, Zachary, is on the right. Enterprise photo by Alan Campbell
    Vehicle damage from deer accidents adds up quickly, especially when airbags are involved. The damage to this truck waiting to be repaired at Bingham Body and Tow could come to $6,000, estimated owner Bruce Braden, left. Braden’s son, Zachary, is on the right. Enterprise photo by Alan Campbell
Only by your quick driving skill — jerking the car toward a wooded hillside from which a deer had just appeared at twilight, then watching carefully as the doe disappeared on the other side — do you avoid a collision. You offer a prayer of thanks and congratulate yourself. Not so fast, both figuratively and literally. While the prayer seems appropriate, don’t pat yourself on the back for putting…

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