I found these statistic for Iowa.
“In a 16-year period, from 1993–2008, there were more than 124,000 vehicles crashes, more than 9,700 injuries and 73 people killed in deer-related accidents. Approximately 10,000 crash reports are missing from the year 2001 so these figures are lacking additional information. The crash reports from 2009, 2010 and 2011 were unavailable.”
In the US “Every year as many as 200 people are killed in deer related car accidents.”
“Tens of thousands of deer are killed when hit by cars. Erie Insurance, which keeps detailed records on car vs. deer claims, says the number of claims increased from 23,000 in 2000 to 26,000 in 2001, up 16 percent. That company alone spent $50 million on car/deer accidents in 2001, the vast majority of their claims in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.”/
If deer weren’t so gorgeous and the fawns so cute humans would have wiped them out thousands of years ago.
I just took some incredibly cute pictures of a fawn in my backyard. In 2 years it might very well smash up my car.