Oooof. Isn’t that Tacoma essentially brand new too? That sucks. But glad your ok.
They’re getting more and more wild round here. I haven’t tagged one yet. But several friends have. I swear they only cross the road in blind curves...
Came around the corner just before dawn one morning. Doe just standing there. Lock it up. Slide up and literally touch her with the bumper before I stop. She still just stood there. Honk and yell move your ass! She reanimates, jumps and goes tearing off into the field
If I had been doing daytime speed it would have been bad.
Another time, another blind corner. Car stopped in other lane as we come out. I have time to process it and just start applying the brakes. Boom, doe and two older fawns (spots almost gone) appear in the middle of my lane.
Mom jumps the corner of the hood, both younguns disappear below hoodline. Since I’ve slammed on the brakes, the rebar bender in the back slides up and slams the back of the bed. I have just a split second to glance in the mirrors and see a flash of brown on either side of the truck. Then see one jump the guardrail, the other hauling ass after mom. All that in the blink of an eye.
My buddy just knows we obliterated them as I pull over to check my pants and remind him about the bender and that it was what made the impact. One zigged, the other zagged and it saved us all. The one was so close it wiped a clean spot off the mud on the bumper corner
But no impact at all.