re: "...Any one out there got similar / interesting driving experiences you want to share?..."

Here in New Jersey -- i.e., in the "colonies", not the island off U.K.'s coast :-), or is that "the Isle of Jersey"? -- we have a lot of deer -- I think it's the highest deer density of any state. Anyway, anyone here has seen a lot of deer on the roadways, and I've had my several really close calls with them (thankfully, in good handling Volvos), but here's a story:
Almost always, the time to see and have close calls with deer is at twilight or evening hours, but this was in broad daylight, close to noon. I was driving along on a one-way road (actually the ramp off a divided highway) at about 50 mph following two cars, and as we entered a left curve (which allowed me a clear view of the incident), the first car passed a pillar supporting a bridge when suddenly, a deer running full-bore ran out from behind the pillar (no chance for anyone to have seen it). The first car (some small one with a low hood line) scooped it up and the deer slid up over the hood and roof, and landed, spinning, on the hood of the second car; it then barrel-rolled up and over that car, too. Since I saw everything from the time it hit the first car, I was braking hard, and fully stopped before I became the third car to hit it. So, right in front of me, the deer got up and bolted (still in the same original direction) into the woods, seemingly none the worse.
A very acrobatic deer! I was prepared to expect that it had broken legs (at least from the first car, but I think it was in a mid-air leap (legs curled up) when it was scooped by the first car's hood. Actually, I don't know how it kept on the two cars (momentum pushing it transversely across the road), but that's what happened. Astonishing.
But the astonishing thing was the lack of serious damage, as I saw when we all stopped together for a breather (and a "would you believe that?" pow-wow)! No windshields (windscreens, that is) cracked, and no serious dents. The first car had visible scuff marks in the paint on the hood and roof, and same with the second car, which also suffered a broken off side-view mirror.

Another couple of times, in my Volvos, I had to swerve (what Volvo calls a "moose maneuver", I think) out of lane to avoid a deer that suddenly jumped into the road from cover, too close to stop. Thankfully, the car's understeer (and the second time, IPD's antisway bars as well) kept the car stable and under control.

And a third example, I'm driving to work on a country lane in the pre-dawn hours, and on a left curve in the road while doing about 30+ mph on four studded snow tires I suddenly find a buck (antlers prominant) coming from the right side and running alongside my car neck-and-neck, trying to accelerate and pass in front of me! Immediately, I decide that I'm not letting him pass me in front (e.g., what if he then decides to stop one foot in front of me?!!!) and I push in the button (AW70) to downshift and hold my own against his increasing efforts! Finally, after a few seconds (or years, depending on who's counting) he drops back and crosses the road behind me instead!

Finally, a reason to always have a camera with you. Picture a very cold, winter early morning, as I'm driving along a largely deserted road to get the morning newspapers. As I round a curve, a magnificant buck, in hoary gray (from frost? or age?) fur, with a huge rack, is standing tall and stationary in the middle of the road in front of me, staring at me with wild eyes and huge frosty breaths coming out of flared nostrils. I slow to a stop, and he's just glaring at me like I was a mere spike buck! He's holding the pose, and I'm dying -- no camera! What a magnificant picture this would have made.

Best regards,