In Alaska, if a moose steps directly in front of your vehicle on a highway, the safest response is to:
Swerve hard to avoid it.
Swerving causes rollover crashes; moose are too tall to avoid safely.
Brake firmly in a straight line.
Accelerate past it.
Accelerating increases impact severity on a 6-foot-tall animal.
Honk to scare it off.
Moose rarely respond to horns in time.
Alaska averages 800+ moose-vehicle collisions a year. A moose's body strikes the windshield (unlike a deer, which tends to go under the vehicle), making these crashes disproportionately deadly. Brake firmly in a straight line, stay in your lane, and aim for where the moose came from. Swerving causes loss of control.
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