I don NOT recommend hitting a deer

Here, my friends, is a tragic tale. I was driving a friend home last week and we were on a narrow gravel road with long grass along a steep ditch. I tried going 80 (as that is officially the speed limit there) but it wasn't going too well because this particular back road needs to be redone soon. So I brought her down to 60 or 70, and a few seconds later a deer jumps out of the grass. We hit it dead on. It flew over into the opposite ditch. The damage didn't seem TOO bad. The hood was a bit bent and the bumper needed to be replaced. Thank goodness it was a minivan though. Anyway, I had to file the police report, and I sort of went in blind as my parents talked to the insurance agents and repairmen, so when the police wanted to know the extent of the damage and whether the insurance would cover it, I couldn't answer because I wasn't "in the loop." So when I had to go to the police station to finish up what I could not answer on the phone, Mom asked if she should come in. As she is the actual owner of the van, I figured it wouldn't hurt. So when they finished asking all the questions, it was basically my dear mother who answered all of them because neither of my parents had saw fit to inform me what they had found out from the insurance company and the repairmen. It turns out the radiator was also cracked and leaking . . . So if you hit a deer, make sure you know what is going on.