How to talk about past accident damage to private buyer or dealer

Run a carfax on the car yourself…See if the accident shows up on their database. If not…

If someone asks you directly if the car has been in an accident, you could mention the encounter with the deer, say you had to have a new bumper and grill but no air-bags or anything like that…“It happened at low speed, the deer wasn’t that big…” Fade to black…