A few years ago I hit a deer. Had the deer been waiting to jump into the road from on a sidewalk instead of behind a bush, I would not have hit it. The reason

A few years ago I hit a deer. Had the deer been waiting to jump into the road from on a sidewalk instead of behind a bush, I would not have hit it. The reason I hit the deer is because I didn't know the deer was there. When people hit deer, it's not because the deer was casually walking across the road like a human jaywalker. It's because the deer jumps into your path in an instant. As somebody who's hit a deer and done plenty of urban driving with no shortage of jaywalkers, I can assure you there is no fair comparison. The only sort of situation that might be comparable is if somebody is trying to commit suicide by car and deliberately leaps in front of you, or if a small child concealed by a car parked by the side of the road runs out into the road suddenly. But those scenarios are unrelated to this incident.