Good morning,
Today is Thanksgiving Day here in Canada. Frank and I have a lot to be thankful for.
We celebrated and had a wonderful dinner with family and friends yesterday at Frank's sisters house. They live about a 1 1/2 hour drive from us.
I was driving home. The roads are all very dark and some of them are quite twisty. As I do not really care for driving dark twisty roads I was driving a bit below the speed limit.
It all happened in less than a second.
A large deer ran right into the drivers side corner/side panel of the car.
I saw it for a fleeting second, barely felt anything and then it was gone.
Frank was on his cell phone trying to get the score of the Blue Jays baseball game. He saw and felt nothing.
I said "a deer just ran into us".
That made him look up. We had both our dogs in the car and they had not reacted either.
I pulled over to the side of the road and we could see that there was a great deal of damage and the car was leaking fluid.
We called the police and a tow truck. The driver of the truck walked up the road with a flashlight to find the deer. He said is was a massive big doe. He said he had no doubt that she would have died almost instantly. I am thankful for that as I find it very troubling to know that it is dead. Not because of me as she ran into the car. Nevertheless, it is still troubling.
The truck driver looked at the damage and said that if she had run into the road one second sooner I would have hit her full on and she would likely have come through the windscreen and we both could easily have been killed.
Our guardian angels were definitely sitting on our shoulders last night as we walked away without a scratch.
It is hard to believe that there could be this much damage and we did not even feel it. We had been told when we bought our car, a Honda Civic Hybrid, that they are excellent in front end crashes. All that they said was true.
I think I am still somewhat shell shocked by the whole incident. I told Frank when our good friend and neighbour got out of his bed and drove 45 minutes to come and get us and when we can walk away from this sort of thing completely unharmed that we do indeed have a great deal to be thankful for.
Thanks for visiting. I think I will go out and do some work in the garden to clear my head. Have a great day.
Today is Thanksgiving Day here in Canada. Frank and I have a lot to be thankful for.
We celebrated and had a wonderful dinner with family and friends yesterday at Frank's sisters house. They live about a 1 1/2 hour drive from us.
I was driving home. The roads are all very dark and some of them are quite twisty. As I do not really care for driving dark twisty roads I was driving a bit below the speed limit.
It all happened in less than a second.
A large deer ran right into the drivers side corner/side panel of the car.
I saw it for a fleeting second, barely felt anything and then it was gone.
Frank was on his cell phone trying to get the score of the Blue Jays baseball game. He saw and felt nothing.
I said "a deer just ran into us".
That made him look up. We had both our dogs in the car and they had not reacted either.
I pulled over to the side of the road and we could see that there was a great deal of damage and the car was leaking fluid.
We called the police and a tow truck. The driver of the truck walked up the road with a flashlight to find the deer. He said is was a massive big doe. He said he had no doubt that she would have died almost instantly. I am thankful for that as I find it very troubling to know that it is dead. Not because of me as she ran into the car. Nevertheless, it is still troubling.
The truck driver looked at the damage and said that if she had run into the road one second sooner I would have hit her full on and she would likely have come through the windscreen and we both could easily have been killed.
Our guardian angels were definitely sitting on our shoulders last night as we walked away without a scratch.
It is hard to believe that there could be this much damage and we did not even feel it. We had been told when we bought our car, a Honda Civic Hybrid, that they are excellent in front end crashes. All that they said was true.
I think I am still somewhat shell shocked by the whole incident. I told Frank when our good friend and neighbour got out of his bed and drove 45 minutes to come and get us and when we can walk away from this sort of thing completely unharmed that we do indeed have a great deal to be thankful for.
Thanks for visiting. I think I will go out and do some work in the garden to clear my head. Have a great day.
So sorry to have read about your troubles Melanie. Glad that you and Frank are alright, and what great neighbours you have.
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