In my experience they're pretty shy, but there are so many of them, enough of them cross roads, and we have 13.5 times your population, with plenty of it in e.g

In my experience they're pretty shy, but there are so many of them, enough of them cross roads, and we have 13.5 times your population, with plenty of it in e.g. the fairly crowded North East where the old farms have returned to forest due to it being so much more efficient to farm out here in the mid-West, there are enough deer-car interactions to, well, wow, I just found this 2001 article, and per Wikipedia below, things have not gotten significantly better: http://reason.com/archives/2001/11/21/north-americas-most-dangerous http://reason.com/archives/2001/11/21/north-americas-most-da... The most dangerous mammal in North America is...Bambi. The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that white-tailed deer kill around 130 Americans each year simply by causing car accidents. In 1994, these predator deer had a banner year, causing 211 human deaths in car wrecks. There are about 1.5 million deer/vehicle collisions annually, resulting in 29,000 human injuries and more than $1 billion in insurance claims in addition to the death toll. And here's Wikipedia on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer%E2%80%93vehicle_collisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer%E2%80%93vehicle_collision... They even kill around 20/year in Germany.