One of our featured vehicles, Mickey’s Traveling Tundra Crew, suffered a little damage a while back. A negligent and uninsured 7 point buck ran out in front of Mickey’s truck while it was going 70 mph. While Mickey managed to slow down to 35 mph (a full-fledged emergency stop), the deer was just too close. You can read the full story on the Deer Strike thread in the TundraNetwork Forums.

Here’s the BEFORE picture:

Here are the AFTER pictures:

The good news: The Tundra is designed to protect occupants from all types of crashes. The truck did an excellent job of absorbing the impact with no damage to the driver.

The bad news: Repairs were expensive – about $10k – and they took quite a while. The damage was pretty severe.

Shout out to Superior Toyota of Parkersburg, West Virginia for doing a bang-up job on the repair and for their excellent customer service.

If you’ve every wondered why people purchase Bull Bars and Grille Guards for the pickups, now you know.

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