Deer-vehicle collisions in Denmark

Data on deer-vehicle collisions for roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), and fallow deer (Dama dama) were collected countrywide in Denmark (Fig. 1). A corps of hunters, supervised under the “Schweiss-register” by the Danish Nature Agency, conducted tracking and euthanasia of traffic-injured deer with specially trained tracking dogs. From 2003-2010, it was mandatory for tracking dog handlers to register the exact location of DVCs, date and time for all DVCs they were called for, as well as information on species, sex and age class if available. From 2011-2016, only the number of annual DVCs was registered without information on spatial location (not shown in this data set), but from 2017-2019 the spatial location was again registered although not the time of day.