The three states you are most likely to hit a deer with your car in are West Virginia, Michigan and Pennsylvania according to “Deer-vehicle collisions rise in Pennsylvania.” The article, by Bob Frye of the Tribune-Review, highlights an expensive issue for car insurance companies. With an average vehicle repair cost of $2,950 per incident, living in a high-risk state could effect State Farm Car Insurance Quotes. That repair cost is an increase of 2.5% from last year.
With a 1 in 45 chance of hitting a deer in West Virginia, a 1 in 78 chance in Michigan and a 1 in 97 chance in Pennsylvania, your chances of hitting a deer are double your chances of getting audited by the IRS. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety records 1.5 million deer-vehicle crashes every year in the United States. Unfortunately there are over 150 fatalities. Car insurance companies also pay out more than $1.1 billion for damaged vehicles. Whether you agree with the practice of hunting or not, deer hunting season could prove to make the roads in these dangerous states safer for drivers and less costly for car insurance companies.
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