Blimey. That is terrible. What a way to goThe engine noise seems to startle them to run into the road.
My cousin was tragically killed on his motorbike on the road out of Exmouth(top of Hulham Rd about 400 yds before the T junction) in 2000 by a deer jumping out of a field. It happened just after 6.30am in January, hence it was still dark. The investigation speculated that when he changed gear, the brief high revving startled the deer into running in the road via jumping a hedge, which caused the fatal collision.
Such is fate, his wife wanted him to drive the car to work that day, rather than ride his motorcycle