Deer Safety: Collisions, Disease, Ticks, and Fawns

Safety on WorldDeer is collisions, disease, ticks, and fawns in yards — the queries people search at 11 p.m. after something already went wrong. This hub is the table of contents. The how-to pages stay at their current URLs.

If you hit a deer

• What to do if you hit a deer — canonical checklist
• Deer collisions by state
• I hit a deer but it ran off
• Is it illegal to hit a deer and drive off?
• Is hitting a deer considered an accident?
• Does hitting a deer go on your driving record?
• How hitting a deer affects insurance

Disease

• Deer diseases hub
• CWD symptoms
• What is “zombie deer” disease?
• What CWD looks like in meat
• How to get a deer tested for CWD
• EHD in deer
• Blue tongue (BTV)
• Mange

Ticks and Lyme

• Deer and ticks
• Do deer get Lyme disease?

Fawns

• Is this fawn abandoned?
• What to do if you find a fawn
• How a doe finds her fawn

Related wildlife safety pages stay live and stay indexed: abandoned wolf pup, plus disease explainers for other species. They belong in the wildlife section; they are not deleted to “focus the site.”