{"id":206792,"date":"2025-10-17T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206792\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:24:07","slug":"warning-to-drivers-during-deer-rutting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206792\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning to drivers during deer rutting season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers in the South East are being warned to take care during deer rutting season with more of the animals expected on the roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 41% increase in accidents involving deer is expected nationally, with changing hormones making deer lose focus and stray onto highways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Figures from the AA show instances of them being hit on the road have increased by a third since 2021 with incidents &#8220;particularly prevalent&#8221; in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Phelps from the Knepp Rewilding project said: &#8220;At this time of year the nights are darker and roads are damper anyway and then you add into that the rut and they&#8217;re just a lot more likely to run in front of your car.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers in the South East are being warned to take care during deer rutting season with more of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-206792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}