deer collisions

A couple of weeks back at around 11:20pm on a Saturday night a Canadian died on the Maine Turnpike near York when the car he was traveling in hit a moose, rolled several times and came to rest against a roadside tree. The dead man was in the right passenger seat. The driver sustained serious head injuries too. But a second passenger, a woman in a back seat, got minor scrapes and bruises.

E470 Public Highway Authority in Denver are trying out a new Austrian developed deer deterrent system that simulates a predator. The Denver area tollroad on the eastern fringe of the metro area has seen a doubling of deer incidents this year.