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The implied message is that terrorism isn’t a big deal. But actually, it’s because moose are crazy dangerous to Canadians.

Between 2000 and 2014, 236 Canadians were killed after their car smacked into a moose. Add in collisions with deer, elk, bears, cougars, bison and coyotes, and in the last nineteen years, we’ve lost about as many Canadians to wildlife crashes as died in the Korean War.

If you don’t want to be the next driver killed by a wayward ungulate, follow the tips in the video above to avoid wildlife collisions and, if that fails, how to properly smash your car into majestic Canadian fauna.

You can also read a transcript of the video, below:

TIP NUMBER ONE: DON’T SPEED

We’ve all been there. You’re on a wide, dry, empty country road, and you wonder “why does it have such a low speed limit? I’m a good driver, I’ve got good tires, I can speed through here without any problems.”

Well dingus, maybe traffic engineers set the speed limit low not because of the road design, but because this is an area where deer keep diving through windshields. That slow speed limit is there so you have enough time to scan the bushes for suicidal deer, and stop in time if one wanders into the roadway.