Hitting deer with your car

For the record, there were two times during my drive to Nevada where I almost had a deer jump in front of my car. In one place, a deer in the median was racing me and trying to jump in front of the car - indicating some kind of competitiveness - but I out-ran it. In another case, in the confusion of small roads north of Cairo Illinois, trying to get to Paducah Kentucky, a large deer stood beside the road and decided not to jump in front of me, instead turning back in to the woods.