Insurance claims can get wild, with a whole zoo of creatures out there ready to jump, fly, or chomp their way into your car.
Like many of us, deer have been having a hard time. According to State Farm, as of June 2021 in the U.S., insurance claims due to animal collisions were up 7.2 percent in a year, and two-thirds of those accidents involved Bambi's relatives . Drivers in West Virginia have the highest chance of hitting an animal, and those in Hawaii are least likely to. But don't book that flight just yet—wildlife is wild everywhere.
Okay, it would have to be a terrifyingly large spider to cause collision damage, but in 2013, Toyota was forced to recall 870,000 vehicles because tiny arachnids built sticky webs that blocked an HVAC-condensate drainage tube, leading to water-damaged control modules that posed a risk of explosive airbag deployment . Two years earlier, Mazda had spider woes of its own.
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