ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 14, 2022) – While firearm deer hunting season in Michigan begins at dawn on Tuesday, motor vehicle deer hunting season is a 12-month-long proposition on state roads.
According to Triple-A of Michigan, nearly 600 thousand hunters are expected to head out to bag their quota of the over two million strong deer herd, but the Dearborn-based insurer says that over 42 percent of vehicle-deer collisions occur in this state during the last three months of the year. Among the 83 counties in Michigan, three of the top six in over 52 thousand total crashes last year were in the Allegan (1,288)-Ottawa (1,391)-Kent (1,810) triangle.
Allegan County Sheriff Frank Baker has noticed that the hits just keep on coming more and more.
Last year, 10 motorists died on state roads from colliding with deer, with 14-hundred-49 injured, and such crashes results in over $130 million in damage annually.
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