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Your odds of colliding with an unsuspecting deer on the road are down by 4.3 percent, and you can thank your fellow drivers for that, according to a new State Farm survey.

By Phil Gusman | Updated on October 01, 2013

Your odds of colliding with an unsuspecting deer on the road are down by 4.3 percent, and you can thank your fellow drivers for that, according to a new State Farm survey.

State Farm, using its claims data and state licensed-driver counts from the Federal Highway Administration, says the chances of any single American motorist colliding with a deer over the next 12 months is 1 in 174, down from 1 in 167 the year before. State Farm spokesperson Arlene Lester says the reason for the decline is simple: there are more cars on the road now compared to last year, and as the number of registrations goes up, the likelihood of any one driver hitting a deer goes down. “The deer aren’t doing anything differently,” she jokes.

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