State Farm Insurance ranks South Dakota as eighth in the nation when it comes to vehicle-deer accidents.
By using information from damage claims that have been filed with the company, State Farm found that the chance of a motorist hitting a deer in the next year are 1 in 119 in South Dakota.
West Virginia has the worst rate of deer accidents. Motorists in that state have a 1 in 57 chance of hitting the animals.
The state with the fewest number of deer wrecks is Hawaii, where the chance of hitting a deer is 1 in 16,624.
State Farm's data showed the total number of deer-vehicle collisions across the nation increased 6.3 percent in the past year.
State Farm policyholders were involved in 205,121 deer-related collisions between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. That compared with 192,877 deer crashes in the previous 12-month period.
The average cost to repair vehicles involved in those incidents was about $2,900, up 3 percent from a year earlier.
The insurance company said Iowa ranked fifth in terms of deer accidents, Montana was seventh, North Dakota was ninth, and Minnesota was 10th.
By using information from damage claims that have been filed with the company, State Farm found that the chance of a motorist hitting a deer in the next year are 1 in 119 in South Dakota.
West Virginia has the worst rate of deer accidents. Motorists in that state have a 1 in 57 chance of hitting the animals.
The state with the fewest number of deer wrecks is Hawaii, where the chance of hitting a deer is 1 in 16,624.
State Farm's data showed the total number of deer-vehicle collisions across the nation increased 6.3 percent in the past year.
State Farm policyholders were involved in 205,121 deer-related collisions between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. That compared with 192,877 deer crashes in the previous 12-month period.
The average cost to repair vehicles involved in those incidents was about $2,900, up 3 percent from a year earlier.
The insurance company said Iowa ranked fifth in terms of deer accidents, Montana was seventh, North Dakota was ninth, and Minnesota was 10th.
