It’s that time of year when AAA says nearly half of all deer crashes happen on the road.<\/p>\n
Jeanette Fornal, of Yaphank, says she’s careful to steer clear of deer.<\/p>\n
“There is never one, always three or four. They go in packs and people don’t realize that,” she said. <\/p>\n
AAA says the number of cars hitting deer on Long Island is the highest it’s been since 2018.<\/p>\n
There were 172 recorded animal crashes in Nassau last year, and 1,555 in Suffolk.<\/p>\n
“Suffolk County is third highest in the state as far as number of deer hits are concerned,” said Robert Sinclair Jr., with AAA Northeast.<\/p>\n
As News 12 reported in August, Long Island’s deer population is growing.<\/p>\n
October to December is mating season for the animal.<\/p>\n
“Instinct is making them act hyper and a little crazy and they be tend to act erratically like bounding out into traffic with no good reason,” said Sinclair. <\/p>\n
Some tips from AAA when you’re driving during deer mating season: be on the lookout at dusk when you’re likely to see the most deer, scan the shoulders of the roads for any animals and don’t swerve or brake hard to avoid hitting a deer.<\/p>\n
“Brake gently. If hitting it is inevitable, hit it. Don’t swerve or anything like that you can cause a worse problem,” said Sinclair. <\/p>\n
“Depending on how big the deer is will determine how much damage, I mean I’ve seen cars totaled,” said Rich Sayres, owner of Holbrook MTA Auto Service. <\/p>\n
Sayres says insurance can cover some of the cost of hitting a deer, and the total bill can run from hundreds to thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n
“Average windshield should be $300 to thousands of dollars because they have all the cameras in them now,” said Sayres. <\/p>\n
“Now it might be $1,500 to $3,000 to get that repair because of modern technology,” said Sinclair. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s that time of year when AAA says nearly half of all deer crashes happen on the road.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}