On Sunday morning at 5.30 a.m. I heard the usual accident reports on the car radio, no traffic jams yet and three hazard warnings: On the street so and so there is a dead deer lying on the road;
likewise on two more.
Three deer run over are reported because their carcasses are a danger to the following motorists.
Three of the hundreds of wild animals that are driven to death on our country roads every day.
There are simple ways to save the lives of many deer (and also a number of people who get off the road and crash into a tree at such encounters): drive slower - 80 instead of the permitted 100, especially when it gets dark;
basically a speed limit in the case of a deer crossing sign and the driver's own contribution in the event of a deer accident.
Christian Vordemann
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