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4-panel comic by War and Peas.
Panel 1: A waiter carries a martini on a tray toward a green car seated at a bar table and clears his throat, “Ahem…”
Panel 2: He offers the drink, “This is from the gentleman at the bar.”
Panel 3: A hypnotised-looking deer sits at the bar nursing a glass of wine.
Panel 4: The car’s headlight-eyes droop wearily as it groans, “Not again.”


Every year the forests get smaller and more fragmented. More land gets turned into lawns, and fields or covered with concrete. The air and the ground water gets poisoned. The native plants replaced by invasives.
Most likely, there are just fewer deer.
Overall deer population is steady to growing, and has grown since the 1950s. This website has a nice graphic
https://www.deerfriendly.com/decline-of-deer-populations
If anything I’d expect way more collisions give the rising populations combined with the issues you listed