Which Georgia Counties Have the Most Deer-Related Car Crashes?


 

As I wrote in my last blog entry, no one will be surprised to learn that deer cause more crashes in rural Georgia than in the state's metro areas. I am a lawyer handling cases of deer causing car accidents, and so in my blog I have been reviewing statistics on car accidents caused by deer in Georgia.

While a surprising number of car accidents are caused by deer in the ten most populous counties in Georgia (which are Henry County, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, Cherokee County, Chatham County, Clayton County, Cobb County, DeKalb County, Muscogee County and Richmond County), in general the rate of car accidents caused by deer is far higher in rural counties, given that they have fewer drivers and that fewer miles are driven in those counties.

However, according to data tables published by the Georgia Department of Transportation, more commonly known as the Georgia DOT, more car crashes are caused by deer in Henry County than in any other county in the state: 3525 in the seven-year period between 2000 and 2006. Criminal deportation lawyer. The data from Deer Related Crashes shows that no other county comes even close. Despite that really astonishing number of car crashes caused by deer, Henry County is at least partially urban, being located near Atlanta, and it is one of the ten most populated cities in the state.

Fayette County reported the second largest number of deer collisions in the state: 3079 car accidents were caused by deer in Fayette County.

Baldwin County, Columbia County, Floyd County, Fulton County, and Gwinnett County all had more than 2000 car accidents caused by deer. 2340 crashes were caused by deer in Baldwin County; 2531 Columbia County car accidents were caused by deer; Floyd County reported 2130 people in deer-related car crashes; a surprising 2378 people were involved in car wrecks caused by deer in Fulton County; in another 2662 situations, deer caused car accidents in Gwinnett County; on Newton County roads, 2088 crashes were caused by deer.

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