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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Avoiding deer collisions driver priority Oregon seeks to deter license fraud
October through
December is the high
season for car crashes
with deer.
Each year, car colli-
sions with deer account
for more than 150 hu-
man and nearly one and
a half million deer fatali-
ties. Experts attribute it
to the combination of
deer mating and migra-
tion habits and shortened
daylight hours.
“More drivers are
on the road at dawn
and dusk, the very time
of day when deer are
most active,” cautioned
Ray Palermo, director of pub-
lic relations for Response
Insurance.
“A car striking a 200-
pound adult deer cannot only
result in the death of the deer,
but also cause an average of
$2,000 in damage to the vehi-
cle.” Palermo suggested:
*Scan a wide swath of
roadside. Slow down when
approaching a deer standing
near the side of a road and be
prepared. If startled, the deer
can bolt onto the road and
into your path. If necessary,
honk your horn and flash
your lights to try to scare it
away.
*Be alert for more deer
than you may see at that mo-
ment. Where there is one
deer, there are often more
nearby.
*In many instances, it is
best not to swerve around the
deer since the deer may move
in the same direction. You
may also inadvertently hit
another vehicle, or go off
onto a dangerous shoulder.
Unless certain of those road
factors, it is often
best to simply brake
and continue in your
lane of traffic.
*Be particularly care-
ful at dawn and dusk
and when driving
either over a hill or
around a curve,
where visibility is
limited. Use your
high beams to give
you a greater area of
visibility and allow
you to see the deer’s
eyes sooner.
*Deer whistles or
ultrasonic deer avoid-
ance systems at-
tached to vehicles have never
been proven to work by inde-
pendent studies and may give
drivers a false sense of secu-
rity.
*Take deer crossing
signs seriously, particularly
those installed specifically for
this time of year. Be particu-
larly cautious in wooded and
agricultural areas where there
is little distance between the
road and the woods.
More driver safety infor-
mation is available at
www.Response.com/safety.
closer in line with other
into effect immediately, as it
An Executive Order in-
states.”
will take DMV several
structing the Oregon Driver
Under Executive Order
months to implement the
and Motor Vehicle Services
07-22, applicants for new or
changes. Before that, the
Division (DMV) to draft rules
renewal driver licenses or ID
agency will launch an infor-
tightening documentation and
cards will be required to pro-
mation campaign to ensure
identity verification require-
vide a valid Social Security
that Oregonians know what
ments for licenses and iden-
number if they have one --
ID to have in hand when they
tity cards was signed Friday,
which will be verified by
apply for or renew licenses or
Nov. 16 by Gov. Kulongoski.
DMV. They also will have to
ID cards.
The governor’s office
provide ID such as a passport,
Kulongoski points out
said that he took the action
birth certificate, resident card,
that while the Executive Or-
“because Oregon’s current
der tightens Oregon’s
documentation require-
permissive system, it
ments to prove identity
does not solve the prob-
for licenses and ID cards
lem of what to do about
issued through DMV are
‘But until the federal government
people who are driving,
among the most permis-
fixes this nation’s broken immigra- but do not have the
sive in the country.
documentation to prove
“This, coupled with tion system, it will be left to the
that they are legally pre-
Oregon’s relatively long states to deal with this issue on a
sent in the United States.
eight-year license term, piecemeal basis.’
has made Oregon vulner-
-- Gov. Kulongoski Any further changes
would have to be made
able to organizations that
to Oregon statutes
bring people to the state
through the state Legis-
to get a license or ID
tribal ID card or a driver li-
lature.
card” to which they are not
cense from another state.
“The larger problem is
entitled.
Applicants who do not
that we must have compre-
“It is unacceptable for
have a Social Security num-
hensive immigration reform,”
our state to be a magnet for
ber, or those whose number
said the governor. “But until
people trying to illegally ob-
cannot be verified, will need
the federal government fixes
tain a driver license or identi-
to provide additional proof of
this nation’s broken immigra-
fication card,” said Kulon-
identity such as valid U.S.
tion system, it will be left to
goski. “Under this Executive
immigration documentation.
the states to deal with this
Order, we will secure our
The new rules will not go
issue on a piecemeal basis.”
licenses and bring Oregon
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