Mark,
Sorry to hear about your run in, but I'm glad you're OK and that the damage to the VX isn't that severe.
I have to commute every day on a highway that goes through an elk migration corridor and my biggest fear is hitting one of those monsters and totalling my baby. Actually, heading home last night there was an ambulance and three police cars blocking off one lane of the highway because someone had hit an elk, and that sucker was HUGE.
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless