{"id":79,"date":"2004-06-10T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2010-10-17T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:45:30","slug":"hit-a-deer-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/hit-a-deer-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit a deer last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/news\/deer.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"242\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">During the 5 hours driving back to my home with Jetta 2000 yesterday, I hit a young deer very hard at around 75 MPH.  It was raining pretty bad that day so visual distance isn&#8217;t great.  Everything went slow motion after I saw that deer&#8217;s eyes..<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I turned right a bit and hit him by the corner of my car&#8217;s body frame instead of middle. If he hit my car in the middle, my car&#8217;s bumper and hood would have been crushed like a cheap soda can and windshield all cracked.  I also could have been hit by a large truck following me.  Adrenaline Rush saved the day.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, the damage on my car is very minimum. The only thing that is damaged is plastic in the tire area (maybe worth around $100) and some bended plastics.  There&#8217;s lot of blood and fur all across the side of my car.  My leg&#8217;s pretty sore after flying off the seat (even with a belt on) and hit the driver&#8217;s wheel.  Very bad headache too.<\/p>\n<p>I did plan to find a nearby policemen so I can ask him\/her to fill out a report but changed my mind as I remember that any nature-related accidents get a 25\/75 chance of being covered by insurance company.  If they&#8217;ve decided not to cover it, my monthly insurance bill will be much higher.  Around $100 for a plastic part isn&#8217;t a big deal though.<\/p>\n<p>Truly a scary experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 5 hours driving back to my home with Jetta 2000 yesterday, I hit a young deer very hard at around 75 MPH. It was raining pretty bad that day so visual distance isn&#8217;t great. Everything went slow motion after I saw that deer&#8217;s eyes.. Luckily, I turned right a bit and hit him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}