COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Vehicle collisions with deer can often result in injuries, and occasionally deaths, to both drivers and animals.
However, Brandon Hystad has experienced two such crashes since Thanksgiving and although he and his passengers weren’t hurt, the cars he drove at the time didn’t fare well.
“In the first one, last November, I totaled my car when a deer came out of nowhere,” he said, recalling the incident from the driver’s seat of his new car. “All I know was that the air bags deflated and the car automatically braked.”
That was on southbound Highway 115, traveling up a steep hill near the Pawnee Avenue intersection overlooking Fort Carson.
“At the first of May, I was driving my girlfriend’s car when I saw a deer in the left turn lane while I was in the left through lane,” Hystad said. “I slowed down and was just about to pass it when it suddenly ran in front of me and I hit it.”…