If you can safely steer away from a deer and stay completely in your lane....you went in that much danger of hitting it in the first place.
Why, is there a problem with using the other lane, if no one is in it?
Or a good wide shoulder?
Nowhere am I stating that a person should not get on the brakes hard at the first sight of a large critter in the road.
But, then again, if one is incapable of a high speed lane change in an emergency, one ought not even be on the road in the first place. There are lots of places where such might be required.
Come around a corner at speed and see a big boulder in the road? Crest a hill and see a semi or tractor virtually sitting in front of you?
Realize those headlights in the dark in front of you closing at 130 MPH are in your lane?
Slow down as much as you can, but then you have two choices. Avoid the collision or be dead, along with everyone else in the car.
