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“I hit a deer last night.”

“Did you hit the deer, or did the deer hit you?”

It’s an all-too-common exchange in Wisconsin. Everyone knows someone who has hit a deer. Given that from mid-October through November, nearly 7,000 deer-vehicle accidents occur in the state, there’s a great chance that someone might just be you.

It’s an awful experience. Time seems to slow down. Your reflexes are trying to get you to act one way while your brain is telling you something entirely different. There’s the burst airbag, the crumpled bumper, the shattered headlight and the sledgehamme...