Saturday, October 18, 2008

Deer Pennsylvania

Mr. J has started a subscription to National Geographic. In the October issue there is a note on automobile accidents involving deer. Pennsylvania leads the nation, with 98,313.

4 comments:

Ron Michael Zettlemoyer said...

Mating season is between October and December, so now is the time to be careful.

The best thing I recently learned about deer accidents: don't swerve if the accident is unavoidable. More deaths are caused when people try to swerve. And just slow down!

You can read many such tidbits (and much much more) in Tom Vanderbilt's recent book, Traffic. It's an amazing book that'll make you rethink how you drive and what driving is all about.

AboveAvgJane said...

Ron,

Thanks for the info! very useful.

ACM said...

*annually*?!?

AboveAvgJane said...

that was my reading -- the number was for 2007. could be wrong though.