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verreauxi said:
Hit a deer going a bit under 70mph last night (speed limit is 70mph). Hopefully (and likely), the poor thing died quickly. It was quite awful. My Subaru is 10yrs old and has 150k miles on it. It is likely unsalvageable, which means I'll only get like $4-5k from the insurance company, so I'll need to spend additional $$$ on another car. The airbags deployed with such force they scraped a bit of skin off the back of my hands as they exploded from the steering wheel, which means they worked as planned. Crazy thing is...my partner last week had her car totaled by a deer on the same interstate with the same result: unrepairable damage, scraped hands, and a very dead deer. We are both on the market for new cars.

I took pictures for insurance purposes. I can't figure out the "spoiler alert" function on GOT, so here is a picture in reduced size--sorry to freak anyone out. Crazy stuff: Mods, can you put this picture in a NSFW mode?

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Thats crazy, and quiet scary.
One of my mates is a freight train driver, he hit a cow once, train got stuck for three hours two of the carriages derailed!!
 
Sassy Colombian said:
@verreauxi I’m glad both, you and your wife, are okay after such traumatic wrecks. I hope you also get the most out of your car insurance because they are always cheating people and not providing them with enough money for their cars.

Have you ever considered installing a deer warning whistle? It may worth it if you encounter deer regularly.
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Thanks. Hadn't heard of deer whistles, but my first impression based on doing a little reading is that they are unlikely to work. But they are also 10$ so perhaps couldn't hurt either.
 
Gwladys St. Glory said:
@verreauxi What a crap time for that to happen...the vehicle market isn't great, to put it lightly.
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Indeed, very crap time. Low inventory and very high prices on new and used cars. And the car-rental market is a nightmare. I have a deal through Amica insurance to get a rental car for 25$ a day but no places around here have any rental cars (since they all sold most of their inventory in 2020 to stay in business), so I had to rent a car from Avis at 107$ a day for 3 days (for a crappy compact) until Enterprise gets a car, which is on Friday. Same thing happened to my partner. We are both paying a lot out of pocket just to have a high-priced rental car for a few days while Enterprise finds cars for us. And I learned that my car was immediately declared a total loss, as whatever actuarial algorithm they use deems a 10yr old car w/150k miles and a deployed front air bag as an automatic loss. So at least it was processed quickly. My partner's car was much newer, a Golf all-track, 2017, with 40k miles...we're suspecting she'll have to argue the value of the car with Amica.
 

verreauxi said:
Indeed, very crap time. Low inventory and very high prices on new and used cars. And the car-rental market is a nightmare. I have a deal through Amica insurance to get a rental car for 25$ a day but no places around here have any rental cars (since they all sold most of their inventory in 2020 to stay in business), so I had to rent a car from Avis at 107$ a day for 3 days (for a crappy compact) until Enterprise gets a car, which is on Friday. Same thing happened to my partner. We are both paying a lot out of pocket just to have a high-priced rental car for a few days while Enterprise finds cars for us. And I learned that my car was immediately declared a total loss, as whatever actuarial algorithm they use deems a 10yr old car w/150k miles and a deployed front air bag as an automatic loss. So at least it was processed quickly. My partner's car was much newer, a Golf all-track, 2017, with 40k miles...we're suspecting she'll have to argue the value of the car with Amica.
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Once it was clear both of you were ok, it's the first thing I thought of. The fact that it was a deer that put you both out of commission is just icing on the ?? since neither you or your insurance co. have someone to go after to cover your costs while you sort things out. I'll just shut up though, I'm not helping the situation here.

Brutal...may your luck change soon, man.
 
Cross channel boat people;
If HMs navy...what bit we have... stood just off Calais, or where ever, and turned back the boats, the French would be spewing apoplectically in their cheese eating surrender monkey kecks.
So sort it out M. Macron - stop them on your beaches, don't allow them to die trying to getting to ours
 


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