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Head Cam Catches Harrowing Motorcycle-Deer Collision During Race — And Both Walked Away From It

Aug. 10, 2012 7:39am Liz Klimas

Late last month during a two-day motorcycle race through West Virginia, Braden Childers was cruising down the road, flanked by forest on either side. If you grew up in a wooded area, you probably know what’s coming: a deer.

The doe bolted across the road just in time to make collision with Childers’ bike inevitable — and his head cam caught the whole thing.

Braden Childers GoPro Head Cam Shows His Motorcycle Collision With a Deer During West Virginia Race

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Check it out:

As a bonus, here’s the slow-mo version:

Childers writes in his description of the video he uploaded to YouTube that the collision occurred in the final stage of the race after he had already gone 300 miles. As you can see in the video, Childers assesses himself and his bike before taking off again — he was still in a race afterall.

This photo was taken ahead of the collision. (Photo: Cory Wagoner via Facebook)

Childers said the deer was able to walk off the road “under its own power.”

As for how Childers finished in the race, he writes on his Facebook page that he was still able to take second overall and first in the 450th class. He also notes this incident shows why he doesn’t race without his “GoPro” camera.

(H/T: New York Daily News)

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Comments (44)

avgconservative
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:34am
It was George Bush’s fault. We should ban deer. Maybe we need more education about deer. Is the EPA aware that this area has a petroleum-based road running through it?

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bobad
Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:14am
The deer was obviously drunk. Something must be done.

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cosmic dogma
Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:46am
A deer jumped onto the front of my car . Amazing how quickly it can happen. No warning, just wham, a deer bouncing off my hood. It was sad, and I was sorry for the deer, but there were no options, it began and was over nearly instantly. Don’t judge.

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Richardoky
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:43pm
If you see a deer on the side of the road remember that a deer will always leap straight ahead before turning. So if he is facing the highway and you startle him he will jump out in front of you before turning or going a different direction.

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- Diogenes41
  Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:25pm
  Good advice. learned form experience? I hope not. Just through observation.
  
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hades3
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:38pm
Oh, deer !!

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FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 6:40pm
You see i’ve been telling everyone that Bambi really was an evil SOB!

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FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 6:32pm
When are the stupid Republicans going to realize they need to outlaw deer before more people die from this?

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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 5:19pm
Did you ever wonder Who brings these events together, and why? Alway pays to have chosen the Right Road!

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- cmonnow
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 7:05pm
  Yeah… Most certainly a Romney voter..
  
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rkeyo
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 4:18pm
This happened to a friend of mine in AZ, however, the deer hit HER. She was cruising at about 50 and was nearly killed. She spent 2 months in the hosp (they weren’t yet overcrowed with illegals). As with terrorist attacks, you cannot guard against everything, everywhere, all the time. It’s called ‘life,’

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NoIntelligentLifeOnThisPlanet
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 3:45pm
We just got a road kill law here in Idaho. Now you get to keep what you kill, with exceptions. Now I keep a box in the back of the car labeled body bag which has my knifes and gloves and big bag for the carcass. If I ever get stopped waiting to here the question from the cops. “What’s the body bag for sir?”

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- Johnny Cocheroo
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 4:01pm
  Lol – thanks for the laugh. Not a bad idea.
  
  I’d like to see the look on your neighbor’s face when at 11pm, you back your truck up to your garage door, get out with some blood on your shirt and pull a filled body bag into your garage. Then, smile & wave to your neighbor before turning out the lights.
  
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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 1:48pm
Too bad she didn’t have antlers. She could’ve finished him off.

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Black Midge
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 1:40pm
The deer did not walk away from the impact if flies into the bar ditch when the biker goes down on the pavement and is lying dead in the grass when he takes of again, watch the video closer.

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- bdsconserv
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 4:03pm
  not only that, who took the pic from the front when deer is caught up in handle bars? when you look at his web cam pics/video,there’s not another person in sight. very fishy…
  
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- chips1
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 4:50pm
  I didn’t see a fish. Did you see a fish? Nobody told you to see a fish///
  
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- GrifterDT
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 5:58pm
  Actually, it pans the scene twice. I looked hard myself toi see if the deer got up. You see it down in one glimpse, the a moment later, the deer is gone. And for hte people wondering about why they didn’t see the cameraman who took the head on shot, most helmet cams use a wide angle lens. From 20 feet away it seems like your subject is 50 feet away.
  
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devan95
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 1:40pm
Wait, wait….you mean there just happened to be a person with a camera at the exact spot, in the middle of nowhere, with a camera ready to snap at the exact split second……! Just sayin BS/hoax alert…..?

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RamonPreston
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 1:22pm
It’s disconcerting that motorcyclists were racing through the state. Don’t they have speed limits? Did they have a police escort? Or were the police in pursuit?

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- DonLynch
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 2:47pm
  We run different motocross type races and hill climbs here in PA and they close the road.As I assume this was since he was going full bore into a corner on the wrong side of the road. Or not. Who knows anymore. Don
  
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Kupo
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 12:11pm
Welcome to 2 weeks ago, Blaze.

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THX-1138
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:55am
Well, let’s just hope they both learned something…

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- nysteve
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 1:10pm
  What?
  
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pavepaws
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:36am
You can see in the video that the deer was already on the shoulder when the bike approached it.

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CrismaFire
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:17am
Just for the record when doing an insurance claim always say deer hit you or it could count for insurance purposes as an accident against you. I drive a semi, truck 1 deer 0.

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mersey
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:12am
This gives new meaning to “Deer in the headlights….or headlight.”

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GrumpyCat
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:26am
Frist, its a rally which isn’t necessarily a speed event. That was obviously a transfer section as 1) he has pure offroad tires, and 2) wasn’t really pushing it that hard, and 3) you notice how casually he was scored at the end?

No doubt there were a number of “special test” speed sections, and others were one has to maintain the specified speed, no more, no less.

Believe this is the event: http://rallywv.com/aboutrallywestvirginia.html

And “450th class”? Come now! Its the 450cc class as the bike is a KTM 450.

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Krutch
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:49am
Good thing he had slowed down for the curve before hitting the deer. Light bike and reduced speed for curve saved both deer and dude. A lot of these don’t come out so good.
After missing two deer and one owl one night, I ended my 80 mile trip to the Mississipi river a few years back. First deer was only a brown blur. Second one I heard his hooves on the pavement even with my loud exaust pipes, he was that close. After the owl flew up out of a ditch across my path real close, I figured I’d used up my ‘free passes’ that night. Stopped at friends’ place.

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- PA PATRIOT
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:04am
  If you live in SE Montana, a “deer destroyer” is standard equipment on the front of your truck.
  
  Yeee Haaaa
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:48am
  Yeah, but you also have elk in Montana. Those things will almost destroy a semi.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 5:00pm
  I travel very slowly because I have to stop every few hundred feet to get those damn turtles out of the way. Turtles everywhere. My 10 acres are full.
  
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PA PATRIOT
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:22am
The PA Game Commission has got into bed with the Insurance Companies in PA to decimate the deer population for just this reason.
The Unified Sportsman group sued the PA Game Commission but lost the case.

Unified Sportsman of PA http://www.unifiedsportsmenpa.org/

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-commonwealth-court/1051341.html

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MDDAWG
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:53am
Lucky. I was hit by a deer recently (literally, the deer ran into the side of my brand new car while I was going 60 mph on the freeway.) The deer didn’t fare so well. Neither did my new car–10K in damages.

This guy is a future organ donor.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:29am
  Be gald you had four wheels under you.
  
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Landon410
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:21am
good thing it was a little deer, seriously, thats a tiny deer

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- BIgWheeler
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:03am
  Yeah, I thought he looked a little small too.
  
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- pdw
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 3:52pm
  We have well over 3,000,000 deer in Texas and that is about normal for Texas.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on August 10, 2012 at 5:06pm
  Do they speak English?
  
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DrunkGOP_Hack
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:16am
Oh dear!

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