When you’re barrelling down a hill at around 65 kilometres per hour, you really don’t want to run slap bang into a deer.

Or, for that matter, have a deer run straight into your path.

Reed Soehnel is the unfortunate rider in the video below, and yes, somebody has pointed out that ‘Reed’ is ‘deer’ backwards.

Soehnel ends up flipping over his handlebars, in what must have been a pretty painful impact with the road.

Observe:

Not sure we can call a winner in that one, which happened in Arizona, although both parties may be happy with how things turned out.

Here’s Huff Post:

“I was fully alert and (had) no concussion symptoms the entire time, so that’s why the decision was made to not involve an ambulance, although I was in a decent amount of pain,” Soehnel told the Arizona Daily Star.

Somehow, both the cyclist and the deer managed to escape without serious injury.

“The end result is a shattered bicycle, some road rash, and a broken foot,” Soehnel wrote in his YouTube description. “You can see my back wheel in the video, we were both very lucky it wasn’t worse.”

If you watch that video to the end, you’ll see the deer bounding away and looking relatively unscathed.

We’ll call it a draw.

[source:huffpost]