Deer Crashes: Are there hotspots?
( P hot o taken South of Humbird, Wisconsin on Highway 12 ) Introduction Wisconsin rank s 7 th in the United States when it comes to deer crashes , and Wisconsin residents have a 1 in 57 chance of hitting a deer (State Farm , 202 0 ). In 2019, there were over 18 , 414 deer crashes across the s tate of Wisconsin ( Community Maps , 2021 ) . The average cost of a deer crash was $3,362 ( Taschler , 201 8 ) . There are some stretches that seem to have more deer crashes than others . Are these crashes random or are there hot spots? This project investigated if deer crashes are random or if there are hot s pots. Preliminary Research The f irst step was to see if there has b...