Drivers Beware! See Why Texans Are More Likely To Hit Deer Next Week

Texans beware! Drivers are more likely to collide with deer this week through next week. My High Plains reported that a week after the clocks are set back, motorists are 16% more likely see deer-vehicle collisions.

A new report was published by a team from the University of Washington in Seattle, led by Calum X. Cunningham, that details how deer-vehicle collisions spike in late October and early November.

The report states that there was a spike in deer strikes in late October and early November in all of the states that were studied, aside from Alaska. The report states, "Almost 10% [of these collisions] occurred during the two-week period centered on the autumn time change, which is 2.5 times greater than expected if collisions were universally distributed."

The report claims that a permanent adoption of daylight saving time would save lives- for both deer and drivers.

The researchers wrote, "The shift to standard time each autumn causes an abrupt increase in nighttime driving during the peak breeding season for deer, resulting in a 16% increase in deer-vehicle collisions."