Two of the most unusual deer-vehicle incidents in recent memory both happened in the area of Bartley and Hyson roads. In the first, a small foreign car collided with four deer, killing them all. The driver was not injured and there was minimal damage to the car considering the severity of the collision. The second involved a deer being struck and forced under the frame of the car. Unaware of what had happened, the distraught driver pulled into her garage with the dead deer still under the car. Most recently, on Route 528 near the Lakewood/ Jackson border, a Lakewood police officer swerved to avoid a deer, struck a tree and was killed.

If a deer crosses the road in front of your car, slow down. More often than not, there are more deer coming behind it. When a deer is stunned by your headlights, you can sometimes break the trance by switching your lights back and forth from low to high beam.

There are many gadgets you can buy to put on your vehicle to avoid deer collisions. People swear that they work great until they hit a deer.

A new technology is being tried out on Saylor’s Pond Road near Fort Dix, where there are some 60 to 80 deer accidents annually. The device can detect headlights as far as 150 yards away, long before a deer sees them, then emits a shrill noise and flashes a blue strobe light to deter the deer from entering the roadway. So far, they are working.

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