Deer Crashes in Jackson County: Did the topography play a factor?
Deer Crashes in Jackson County : Did the topography play a factor? ( Photo South of Humbird, Wisconsin on H ighway 12) Intro duction A person is driving when a deer jumps out and wrecks the car. Deer crashes happen very often in Wisconsin, about 18,000 a year (Community maps) . For Wisconsin residents there is a 1 in 57 chance of hitting a deer, that puts Wisconsin 7 th in the nation when comes to number of deer crashes (State Farm). If you hit a deer the insurance claims average about $ 3362 ( Taschler ) . Sometimes those crash sites seem to have similar topographies and maybe they play a factor in increasing the chance of a deer crash . This project will investigate t opograph ical similarities of deer crashes...