Video: North Mississippi Deer Car Crashes

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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) — It’s gun season for hunting deer in North Mississippi, and the ones that getaway from the sites of hunters, just could be the ones targeting your vehicle. Its the peak of deer season. In the last three days in Columbus alone, one auto body shop is working with at least five or more deer/vehicle crashes.

A vehicle belonging to Lowndes County Motorist Della Flemings was towed into a Columbus body shop, an all too familiar scene lately. Flemings’ daughter says it happened around three o’clock Monday morning, her mom hit a deer and lost control of her car.

“She actually just hit it. The damage to the car was in the flipping and going down through the ditch and catching the guard fence on the other side,” said Chuck Cook/Columbus.

“She has a broken foot and a laceration to her head. But God is good. She is still here, she is still living she is alive,” said Martha Hairston/Lowndes County.

Before the crash with a buck, Flemings was traveling east on Frontage Road, headed for Columbus. The crash victim who was wearing her seat belt, managed to escape her crushed car through what was the back window. Just as Flemings’ car was being towed in for repairs, another Columbus motorist bringing his truck in collided with a deer on Friday night in West Alabama.

“On a, you know small dirt road. Just coming along and the deer just came out of nowhere. Nothing I could do. Coming from Pickens County, a hunting club down there I belong to. Yeah, I found him,” said Doug Summerford/Columbus Motorist.

A black Nissan was damaged around seven Saturday morning in an area of 18th Avenue in Columbus, Sunday morning at 5:20 a.m. near the Oktibbeha County line a maroon Honda is hit. In the wee wee hours of the morning from twilight to sunrise, caution is the order of any day, when almost anyone becomes a target of one of these costly collisions.

“I would say close to one thousand dollars that’s what I’m thinking. They hadn’t said yet,” said Doug Summerford.

“They don’t discriminate at all. And I hate to say, I hope these motorcyclists are paying attention and lowering their speeds,” said Cook.

Claims data from state Farm insurance puts the odds of hitting a deer in Mississippi at one in 84 drivers.