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Jump over the front wheel and clear me, but ended up coming right over the handlebars, knocking the handlebars back and hitting me right square in the chest as the bike goes down. bike goes one way, deer goes one way, i go the other. you hear your own gear clacking around, hitting the ground. everything s just happening superfast. childers pulls himself up to assess the damage. by the time i looked, i m standing and grabbing the bike, i turn over, look over my shoulder and the deer is already gone. it took off into the woods. so it seemed like it was okay. i was feeling around, make sure, just no real pain, nothing s broken for sure. then i m thinking about there s a rider coming behind me and going to be coming around that corner just as fast and i want to be out of his way so i don t get hurt and he doesn t get hurt. i know race is close at this point. i hop on the bike which it still runs and brakes and levers all work, so bike s, you know, good enough to get me that last ....
Suddenly she s blind sided by a bounding deer. it happened so quickly, no one knows what hit them. what is it, a dog? they re like no, it s a deer. in a nearby town, another confused deer strikes. this time crashing full speed through the window of a restaurant. in a heartbeat, confounded customers go from sitting down to a relaxing meal, to jumping up at their tables. and at this pennsylvania beer store, a typical night turns wild in no time flat when unusual customers come slipping and sliding through the aisles. a deer inside a building is undoubtedly out of place, but even when a deer is in its right place, it can sometimes be at precisely the wrong moment. july 28th, 2012. motorcycle enthusiast, braden ....
Smooth ride is interrupted when something catches his eye. i see a deer on the right side of the road just standing there. it s not looking like it s going to jump out or anything. i assumed i could get past it, so i just keep on throttling. what i didn t see was the one that was right behind that one. as childers gets closer, the second deer comes into focus. but it s already too late. there s a minute of panic. then you re just bracing for impact. everything tightens up and you re waiting for the hit. you just don t expect that. you don t know what it s going to be like. we just collided dead-on. childers and the more than 100-pound deer smash into each other. a nearby photographer captures the scene. it s like getting tackled by a huge person running at you at 50 miles per hour. the smallest thing feels huge at that speed. you can actually see it try to ....
Quarter mile, half mile to the finish. spectators at the finish line, including childers wife, laura seville, hear the alarming sounds of the crash. we heard a thud and we heard a bike skid across the road and there was an audible gasp from everyone that was standing there on the hill, and i didn t look at braden s mother. i just kind of waited and then we heard the bike. we weren t sure if it was braden or not but saw him come around the corner and he shot his arm up and kicked out his leg and he yelled. and we re like, oh, there s braden just having a good time, as usual. dazed, childers crosses the finish line. i was stunned still. i was still really amped up, adrenaline s going full-on. so i get there, i m sitting there just staring off in the distance and the official is kind of looking at me like i m crazy wondering why i m not giving him my time card. i hit a deer. i hit a deer. did you really? ....