I had a deer almost hit me in the same spot on my vehicle, back when I was at A&M. In my case, I got very lucky, as I saw the deer coming from the left , and had room/time to swerve right, just barely.
The buck's horns happened to straddle the crosspost in my vehicle, so the deer's right antler broke my driver side window, but the buck itself, did not enter the vehicle. Had I not seen it, and swerved, ducked, and pushed my wife's head down towards the floorboard, we could have had a lot different result, as he would have come through the front windshield.
I am still thankful that I saw him coming that night. The collision spun him 180 after his horns impacted the crosspost (I was doing 45mph), his rear hit the back quarter panel of my vehicle, and he was gone into thin air. We circled back to my in-laws house about 5 miles away, and once we got the glass out of our hair, we picked up a pistol and went back. We never found a trace of blood or hair where he impacted us. We were planning to put him out of his misery.
Class of '93 - proud Dad of a '22 grad and a '26 student!