not necesarily. It depends how fast you're going, had an 06 dakota, hit a deer with a brush guard and all that happened was it bent the headlight part of the guard and cracked the headlight. Depends the conditions.
So how fast were you going?
I was going about 45-50mph. I also hit a deer in a '95 Escort, it jumped out in front of me out of nowhere and all it did was dent my fender and hood and crack my headlight. Like I said, depends the conditions.