03CoupeV6

Tonight I'm driving along a 4 lane, undivided highway, about 50mph when the excellent HID front lighting catches something in the roadway ahead. I have time to think "Gee that looks like a sheet blowing across the street, I better change lanes" and look over to notice a car beside me preventing me from changing lanes before I realized what it was.

It was a deer, hit by a motorist going the opposite direction, and it was skidding on it's side straight towards my car - and it was moving FAST!

I jammed down the brake pedal, and thanks to ABS and great poise on the TL's part, I was able to swerve onto the shoulder and steer around the warm-blooded missile just in the nick of time. The deer couldn't have missed nailing the left front of the TL by much more than a few inches.

ProvidenceLeaf

That would have been terrible. My sisters car got totaled when she hit a deer. Glad to hear you missed...

CL Platano

Nice manuevering...Now time to autocross the P

BIG_KOUT

Nice to finally hear something good about our cars. Seems like everybody's just picking at the little things lately. Good to know ABS is solid.

03CoupeV6

My car's lucky. No major scratches, no dents or dings, and never been in an accident. It's an 02 TL-P with 57.5k miles. If it's going to be in one at this stage in the game, I'd rather it just be totalled.

It happened so fast - I just remember feeling ABS and swerving hard one way and then back the other. Never a peep from the car. Perhaps I'm praising it for what should be expected of it, but it had remarkable balance for a front-heavy FWD 3500lb sedan.

fsttyms1

Welcome to almost nightly driving around here

03CoupeV6

So your TL dodged random mammals for 200k miles, eh?

Malayalee King

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damn! that deer must have been making tracks! good old ABS and TLP @ that

03CoupeV6

Oh yeah, I drove back by later that night and it was just bloodfest all over the roadway where it happened. Glad my TL escaped unscathed.

Pure Adrenaline

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Nice maneuver.

That would've been real ugly if you had hit that.

FISHYTL

what highway was it on?

fsttyms1

Mostly deer and large coons.

03CoupeV6

It was on highway 27.

sbuswell

I almost hit a huge moose at night going about 65mph in 55. it was crossing the road and wasn't slowing down, I missed it be a few feet. If I hit that sun of a bitch my daughter and I would have been toast. Moose are stupid-ass animals.

FISHYTL

Thats pretty far from where i live but there are still a lot of deer in my area. My brother hit a deer a few years back with a brand new expedition.

fsttyms1

woulda looked like this

sbuswell

except this one had an enormous rack on it and was much bigger.