If you spend much time driving in rural areas you will encounter animals on the road. How should you react to animals in or near the roadway?

Here’s a trivia question: What animal kills the most humans in the US? If you answered shark or bear, you’re not even close. It’s other humans. I know, that’s a trick question. If we take ourselves out of the equation though, it’s deer. One researcher estimated that deer are responsible for 440 of the 458 annual deaths caused by animals. No, they’re not ferocious; they don’t mix well with traffic.

Of course, there’s no law preventing deer from walking onto the roadway, so this one’s up to us. And we don’t have a law that says it’s illegal to hit a deer, at least not a traffic law. I don’t know much about wildlife laws, but if you intentionally hit

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