Deer in Headlights Experience

Tonight on my way home from Boise I had a much too close encounter with a very large female mule deer.  I was cruising at 65 mph down highway 95, and Bryan suggests that I turn on my high beams.  I do so and am shocked to see this deer standing in the roadway.  In my horror, I flicked off my high beams (which was very stupid of me...but I was not thinking rationally at this point); and I hit the brakes as hard as I could without losing control of my very fast traveling vehicle.  I literally reached the deer at a slow enough speed to swerve around her on the right hand side of the roadway as she casually stood there in the middle of my lane simply looking at me and then s-l-o-w-l-y she began to saunter into the other lane of the highway.  Needless to say, I was somewhat spooked after this experience.  Bryan calmly suggests that I may want to cruise at somewhat slower speeds after dark when traveling on the wilderness highway.  The truth is, had I actually hit that deer at the speed I was going, Bryan and I would more than likely be in a hospital and the deer wouldn't have survived.  I praise the Lord for sparing us!  And from now on...I will be using my high beams and traveling at a slower speed after dark.