So, heading to North Dakota for a job, I was a year out of high school and had purchased a brand new Nissan pickup. (They are soft and light weight) My wife of the time took her turn driving after dark, (I should never had let her take a turn after dark). Before leaving California I gave her money and told her to run down to the car insurance place and pay up our insurance which was due the next day. She assured me she had taken care of it so away we went. Second day into our trip and she's driving. I take a nap in the passenger side as I had been driving since sun up that morning. I was like half asleep but suddenly I hear her scream and open my eyes to see a deer broadside to us and looking straight into our headlights as we slam into it at 60 miles per hour. She never even tapped the brakes or at least I didn't feel or hear the brakes or screeching of our wheels on the asphalt. Just 'BOOM' as the deer smashes into our grill. So, we get out and the front of this soft bodied pick up is crumpled very badly as is the deer. I think all it's legs were broken, one of it's antlers is shattered and it's completely dead from the impact of having it's entire body slammed. Not even a twitch. First order of business is to calm my wife who is bawling hysterically. I try with, "It's ok, thank God we have insurance" "Don't worry, insurance will take care of it, stop crying already, we're fine!". To which she just wails even louder. Finally between sobs she admits she pocketed the insurance money for personal spending cash. Ho Lee Fuk! Yes, eventually I got the bank to fix the vehicle as unknown to me they also had back up insurance on the vehicle and I only had to pay the $500.00 deductible. However, back to hunting. When police and a tow truck arrived I asked about the deer meat since I didn't want it to go to waste and the police informed me I wasn't allowed to salvage the meat. Maybe they thought I was illegally hunting with my grill, I've no idea. Edit: Yes I was pissed at my wife for pocketing the insurance money which was only $30.00 for full coverage that month. We paid by the month back then. Then I had questions for her about why she ran into the deer and how it happened. NO, this deer did not just randomly pop up on the highway and jump in front of our vehicle. It was STANDING on the highway and she saw it from a long way back. She simply maintained her speed and switched lanes. That's her story and she stuck to it. She claimed it had spun around and got in front of her again. Of course I asked her why she didn't just slow down and honk her horn to startle the deer off the road and give it time to escape. She said she hadn't thought of that. Apparently in her mind the deer will just stand still and let us pass at 60 miles an hour a foot from it because, deer are smart like that.