Notes off a soiled cuff: Reader offers an interesting reason for Pa. leading the country in deer/vehicle collisions

Driving home from a great nephew’s birthday party recently – deep in thought, pondering what I might write this column about – a big doe burst from brush alongside a highway near my home and bounded across the road 10 yards in front of me.
I instinctively braked, but I was going too fast to avoid hitting the buck I believed was chasing her. Fortunately, he never materialized. Still, it was a close call, and I thought about what a hassle it is to hit an adult deer these days, and what that doe would have done to the sensors and awesome electronic safety system I value so much in my kinda new van.

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