Well first they drove up some guy’s driveway (private driveway) and posted those photographs, then this.
While out doing their part to drive up CO2 emissions and photograph every road known to man, and some that aren’t. A driver for Google managed to hit a fawn.
Gathering the imagery for Street View requires quite a bit of driving; as such, we take safety very seriously. Unfortunately, accidents do happen — as some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in upstate New York. Due to several user requests using the “Report a concern” tool, these images are no longer available in Street View.
The driver was understandably upset, and promptly stopped to alert the local police and the Street View team at Google. The deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived. The police explained to our driver that, sadly, this was not an uncommon occurrence in the region — the New York State Department of Transportation estimates that 60,000-70,000 deer collisions happen per year in New York alone — and no police report needed to be filed.
In the comments of “The Daily What” I spotted this one:
I heard that is in the stimulus lard fest, fence every road in America to a height of 20’
Yeah, 70,000 crashes but you be sure to tell those mean nasty hunters that they shouldn’t be hunting.
![Google Maps Find of the Day: The Google Maps van runs over a baby deer.
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UPDATE: Google, citing “high demand,” has blacked out the image. Whether this is temporary or they’re scrambling to replace the original shot is to be seen.
UPDATE 2: Google responds:
Gathering the imagery for Street View requires quite a bit of driving; as such, we take safety very seriously. Unfortunately, accidents do happen — as some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in upstate New York. Due to several user requests using the “Report a concern” tool, these images are no longer available in Street View. The driver was understandably upset, and promptly stopped to alert the local police and the Street View team at Google. The deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived. The police explained to our driver that, sadly, this was not an uncommon occurrence in the region — the New York State Department of Transportation estimates that 60,000-70,000 deer collisions happen per year in New York alone — and no police report needed to be filed.](http://13.media.tumblr.com/b9vfl4b63jb7cpmrBfaUdqkJo1_500.jpg)
