Jacquie Aitken, heritage curator at local museum Timespan, has had first-hand experience of deer collisions.<\/p>\n
“Deer are a big problem on the roads here and, unbelievable as it may sound, I have written off two cars in the space of three years with full frontal impacts with two massive deer,” she said.<\/p>\n
The first time it happened Aitken was driving home after work in March three years ago.<\/p>\n
“Not even with a second’s notice a huge deer was in front of my car,” she said.<\/p>\n
“All I could think to do was hold on to the steering wheel. The deer was on my car and the car’s airbag went off. I was in shock.”<\/p>\n
Aitken had hoped it was one-off, but she was in a collision with another deer while in a queue of traffic in April this year.<\/p>\n
She said the experience had left her anxious about driving.<\/p>\n
“You don’t know what to expect,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacquie Aitken, heritage curator at local museum Timespan, has had first-hand experience of deer collisions. “Deer are a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-658305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658305","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=658305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}