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• Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette
• Date: November 18, 2007
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• Bylines: Karen Lincoln Michel
• Topics: Hunting
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: Nearly half of all collisions between vehicles and deer happen between 5 p.m. and midnight. As the gun-deer season opens today, state safety officials say motorists should be alert for deer no matter what time of day. An analysis by the Green Bay Press-Gazette shows that 21,021 car-deer crashes happened between 2002 and 2006 in an 11-county area, based on statistics from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Counties included are Brown, Calumet, Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca and Winnebago. Although the peak times for car-deer crashes occur at dawn and dusk, the analysis shows that the number of accidents in the evening hold steady until about 10 p.m. and decline steadily until about 3 a.m.