While the number of miles driven by U.S. motorists over the past five years has increased just 2 percent, the number of deer-vehicle collisions in this country during that time has grown by 10 times that amount.
Oregon, though, remains a comparatively low-risk state for deer-vehicle collisions.
Using its claims data, State Farm, the nation’s leading auto insurer. estimates 2.3 million collisions between deer and vehicles occurred in the U.S. during the two-year period between…