Recent press releases and selected UK media stories on Deer-Vehicle Collisions:

[For TV items click: BBC Deer Danger growing on Roads (VIDEO) and BBC High-Tech Trial to reduce Road Deaths  (VIDEO) ]

Others news media:

11/03/2008 Driver in death crash ‘swerved to avoid deer’ (Dorset Daily Echo)

05/03/2008 Car insurance warning: Wild animals (My Finances)

05/03/2008 Reducing Animal Road Kill (GMTV 5/3/2008)

05/03/2008 POST OFFICE® helps raise DVC awareness (Press release March'08)

03/01/2008 I'm so glad to be alive (Dorset Echo)

11/12/2007 Deer-on-Roads Seminar - Presentations now at DVC web-site (Ashridge Seminar)

12/12/2007 Tragedy after man hits deer ( Gazette & Herald)

20/11/2007 Deer collisions cost £21m in insurance claims (WhatCar?)

19/11/2007 Hampshire is deer accident blackspot (Daily Echo)

01/11/2007 It's not just a case of deer misses on UK roads (Autonational Rescue - Press Release)

10/10/2007 Delay misery after deer crash on A419 (This is Wiltshire)

10/10/2007 Drivers urged to mind deer (This is Hertfordshire)

08/10/2007 Deer dangers on the rise (Dunstable Today)

09/10/2007 60,000 Deer hit by vehicles (The Cornishman)

06/10/2007 60,000 deer knocked down on roads each year (Politics today).

05/10/2007 RSPCA Press Release

28/09/2007 Avoid Bambi to stay alive (Daily Express

13/09/2007 Councillor in crash drama (The Comet

21/09/2007 Tragic mum calls for deer hotspot action (This is Gloucestershire)

13/07/2007 Concern growing over number of deer on north roads. Northern Times 

12/07/2007 Biker injured in smash with deer. The Argus

11/07/2007 More than 300 crashes caused by deer. The Argus

04/07/2007 Deer back at the roundabout : http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local-news?articleid=3001887

14/05/2007 Press Release Gloucestershire County Council http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=15546

02/04/2007 The Human Toll of Deer Invasion  - CotswoldLife,  April 2007 [pdf  0.8MB]

26/02/2007 Eight-year-old dies in A14 double fatal click

24/11/2006 My tears for animal roadkill By Emma  Parker Bowles The Sun.

28/11/2006 Plea after fatal crash with deer This is dorset

15/10/2006 Channel 4 features Deer Vehicle Collisions "Wild thing" web-site.

01/10/2006 Dangerous Deer (and deer whistles) Severn Advanced Motorists.

26/05/2006 Fatal Collision, A47 Postwick, Norwich , Norfolk Police click

26/10/2005 Noise alert keeps deer off roads http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4380152.stm

06/10/2005 Press Release: by Hertfordshire Highways :  A SOUND i-DEER

06/10/2005 Signs to cut deer deaths  http://archive.thisisworcestershire.co.uk/2005/10/6/378013.html

25/10/2004 BBC Inside out : DEER CROSSING http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series6/deer_crossing.shtml

07/10/2004 Press Release: RAC-Foundation : " Collisions Cost Deer "

07/10/2004 Project aims to cut deer deaths on Britain 's roads. The Guardian.

10/02/2003 Press Release - Deer Initiative launch Deer Vehicle Collisions Project

 

 

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