This is the third deer family we encountered in a 20-minute walk with the dog near the house. The video clearly shows why it’s not a good idea to drive fast past our house. What wasn’t captured on video is a deer from this group, who fell behind the others and decided to bolt across at full speed a minute later. I didn’t manage to film that. Another car was coming along, going faster. It had to brake hard, with a screech of tires and someone screaming inside. The deer was literally jumping over the headlights just half a meter away from the hood. In fact, they all think the same — they believe they need to jump over the light of the headlights and that they will surely make it across in time. Occasionally, they don’t make it, and their at least sixty-kilogram bodies smash into the windshield. This time, the driver got off just with a scare, but we once again saw why the 25 mph speed limit here is no joke.
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