Regional Section General Data
Multi-State Deer-Vehicle Crash Numbers
2007 – 2008
All data from 2008 unless otherwise noted
a Deer-vehicle interaction (DVI) measures are either carcass removals or deer-vehicle incident reports. Please see the data tables that focus on each state for a specific definition of DVI.
b Data for CT, IA, MD, NH, NY, and TX are animal-vehicle crashes.
c Vehicle damage cost estimate based on $1,700 per reported crash.
d Animal-vehicle crashes in MD defined by an animal as a first harmful event or as a first or second contributing factor.
e Estimate only for portion of state monitored by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
2005 – 2006
All data from 2005 unless otherwise noted
a Deer-vehicle interaction (DVI) measures are either carcass removals or deer-vehicle incident reports. Please see the data tables that focus on each state for a specific definition of DVI.
b Data for CT, IA, MD, NY, and TX are animal-vehicle crashes. Data is for state-maintained roadways only in NY and does not include property damage crashes on non-state-maintained roadways in CT.
c Vehicle damage cost estimate based on $1,700 per reported crash.
2004 – 2005
All data from 2005 unless otherwise noted
*Nationally, it has been estimated that the total number actual deer-vehicle crashes may be at least twice as large as those reported. In Minnesota, it is believe to be three to four times larger than those reported above. In Wisconsin, 41,687 carcasses were collected in 2005. In Iowa and Ohio, 10,656 and 17,160 carcass collections were recorded just by state maintenance in 2005. As expected, the number of unreported deer-vehicle crashes probably varies from state to state due to different reporting procedures, etc., and few states track statewide carcass collections. Minimum property damage crash reporting thresholds may also be different. The number of reported crashes in Iowa are for animals collisions.
**Vehicle damage cost estimate based on $1,700 per reported crash.
2003 – 2004
All data from 2004 unless otherwise noted
*It has been estimated that the total number actual deer-vehicle crashes may be at least twice as large as those reported. In Minnesota it is believed to be three to four times as large as those reported. As expected, the number of unreported deer-vehicle crashes probably varies from state to state due to different reporting procedures, etc., and few states track the number of carcass collections. Minimum property damage crash reporting thresholds may also be different. The number of reported crashes in Iowa are for animal collisions.
**Vehicle damage cost estimate based on $1,700 per reported crash.
2002 – 2003
2000 – 2002
2000 – 2001
* Numbers are from 2000. Updated 2001 numbers are not available.