imo car/deer accidents may or may not have anything to do with the rut, I hunt henrietta ny, and these happen in front of my house almost daily. I have noticed tho, only happens alot when the farmer across the road removes his crops early, when he leaves his crop for late harvest, such as cow corn, the deer are traveling less to find standing food. I hunt almost every available day during the season and year round with camera to get a better idea of what these deer are gonna do next and found, between nov 3rd thru the 12th in my area seems to be the most active with big bucks chasing does, shortly after that it becomes very dead as i think these brusers are bedded tight with a hot doe. I personally use to think that temps and leaves changing signaled the rut for the deer, generally i believe the rut is around the same time every year give or take a couple of days....
