Gray Matter, it's the time of year for the deer mating season or 'Deer Rut'.. GM, were you in the vicinity of a river or creek?
"It is virtually impossible to miss a deer with your vehicle, especially giant dominant bucks. Even if an excellent driver and aware of the deer being very active during the rut." Bucks are very aggressive during this time and will actually attack your vehicle, as well as your person. It is not uncommon to see Bucks charge glass doors or large plate glass windows of buildings due to seeing their reflections in them during the rut... <with the exception of greased windows>
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute report that during the most recent year for which statistics are available, 175 people were killed on U.S. roads in collisions with animals, most often deer.
The risk of those collisions is growing. An annual analysis by State Farm estimates that 1 out of every 169 U.S. motorists will hit a deer over the course of the next year; the auto insurance giant says the odds are up nearly 3 percent from a year ago.
More On Driving Dangers:
Deer crash risks by state
The peak crash times
Ohio Insurance Institute spokesman Mitch Wilson says deer-vehicle collisions spike from October to January, the height of deer mating and migration season. "They're most active at dusk and dawn, from 5 p.m. to midnight, and 5 a.m. to 8 a.m.," he says. "Of course, those are times when cars are normally on the road, too."
As many an unlucky motorist will attest, you don't necessarily have to run into a deer to be involved in a crash with one.
"A lot of times, you may not hit the deer; the deer may hit you or leap onto your car," Wilson says. That happens in many, many cases."
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/auto/deer-crashes-auto-insurance.aspx
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Mississippi White-tailed Deer Simulated Mean Conception Date Map
http://www.mdwfp.com/wildlife-hunting/deer-program/deer-breeding-date-map.aspx
