---
title: "Watch This Sheriff’s Deputy Hit a Deer at 114 MPH While Responding to a Call"
description: "At those speeds, the result's not pretty on either side."
date: "2017-10-28"
modified: "2017-10-30"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/15553/watch-this-sheriffs-deputy-hit-a-deer-at-114-mph-while-responding-to-a-call"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Dash Cam"
  - "Deer"
  - "Dodge Charger"
  - "Minnesota"
  - "police"
  - "Police Car"
---

# Watch This Sheriff’s Deputy Hit a Deer at 114 MPH While Responding to a Call

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Deer season in Minnesota doesn't begin until November 4, but one sheriff's deputy got a head start last weekend when he struck a deer while traveling at 114 mph as he responded to a call in the middle of the night. Isanti County Sheriff's Office released [dash cam](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/15065/deputys-dash-cam-video-from-the-california-wildfires-is-like-riding-through-hell>) video from the violent crash this week, and it shows the deputy is lucky to be alive. The deer? Not so much.

[According to the *Duluth News Tribune*,](<https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4349287-watch-dash-cam-video-shows-minnesota-deputy-hitting-deer-114-mph>) the officer was responding to a call about a man with a gun early Saturday morning in Cambridge, Minnesota when the collision occurred. With the highway empty and his lights and siren on, the officer was reportedly traveling at 114 mph in his [Dodge Charger,](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/15451/indiana-man-arrested-after-trying-to-start-race-with-unmarked-dodge-charger-police-car>) which the [*Isanti County News* notes](<https://www.hometownsource.com/isanti_county_news/free/isanti-county-deputy-sustains-minor-injuries-after-striking-a-deer/article_05b7ee1e-b98e-11e7-8e43-2f306f9b2512.html>) is within the department's standards for that situation.

In the video, it's impossible to see anything beyond the reach of the headlights as he books it down the road. And just after 0:30, that endless stretch of smooth asphalt is broken up by a full-grown deer trying to get across the highway. There's no time to brake; the deputy strikes the deer head on at full speed. As the department [notes in its Facebook post,](<https://www.facebook.com/sheriffcaulk/posts/10154923757160849>) that trust in the strength of the car and ability to keep it steady after the airbags blew likely saved the deputy from serious injury. Swerving wildly at that point would have sent him flying off the road and possibly into a high-speed roll.

https://youtube.com/embed/hEOCrwE0OJs

The deer was killed instantly, while the deputy walked away uninjured. The rest of the video shows the feed from his body cam as he exits the vehicle and examines the damage, which is, in a word, substantial. The front end is completely smashed in and covered in bits of liquefied deer. There's a picture below, but don't look if you're squeamish. It's not pretty.

This isn't the first dramatic deer strike we've seen this year [(involving another Charger, to boot),](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/14522/watch-a-deer-come-out-of-nowhere-and-total-a-dodge-charger-rt>) and with the hunt just beginning, it won't be the last.

![message-editor%2F1509169625784-22712446\_10154923756195849\_8917044329032253002\_o.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1509169625784-22712446_10154923756195849_8917044329032253002_o.jpg>)
**Isanti County Sheriff's Office**

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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