How many people have met these unfortunate animals on our country roads??
Ive never hit anything like these, rabbits etc until this week where i clocked up 2 in my van
one being a little rabbit the other being a cat (i think) but it wasnt worth stopping for either as the sound of squished animal under cheap tyre didnt leave much to the imagination
So who else has had bad luck with them??


Tony

 

I hit a deer at about 70 on a dark A road a few years ago. It appeared so quick I didn't know what I had hit till I turned the van round an found it on the top of a hedge on the other side of the road (Scary). I have heard of them comming in through the windscreen so I guess I was lucky. My boss never believed me till the day I left the company (even when I showed him the fur stuck to grill!!)

Andy

 

Beheaded a fox once, heard a thud then saw the head bounce fowards off the bumper.

 

I once ran over and killed a squirel on my mountain bike. Unitentional of course. It just jumped into my path and that was it.

What can one do if they run under your wheels?

 

Was on a "Mission" one night in Savernake Forest. Hit a deer. It smashed the hell out of the car. We all jumped out ,and the thing just ran off !!! The lights ,radiator and bumper where all over the place. Would hate to hit cow etc.....

Anything small I will just hit it. Sorry but too many folk die trying to miss the basterds.

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Have to agree with you there Luke, it isnt worth swerving to avoid them, tried braking for the rabbit but that was too late and at 50mph all your going to do is make things worse, not sure if i killed it or not but the cat.... no point in ending up the same way really, squashed that is but would hate to hit anything bigger than rabbit/cat, ive heard badgers aint one for hitting either, they make a right mess of your car but you have to report them i think?

Tony

 

hit a fox once in my pug 205gti, just ran out. i went back but it was gone, should n't have thought it went far tho

saw a piccy in performance bikes a few years ago of a guy that got a pheasant in the face whilst on his bike, made a right mess, i'm pretty sure he come off the bike but was ok

14,500rpm

 

Had a few rabbit, but last week a bird went into my bonnet scoop, got home and opened the bonnet to find a nicely cooked Robin !!

 

i have hit a couple of rabbits and a cat the cat left clumps of fur stuck to my bumper.
also had a pigion hit the windscreen which blow up on the window there was feathers every where and it scratched my roof

 

i had a stag jump over a hedge land on the bonnet of my MGB GT and then jump clean over the hedge on the other side of the road near ly kiled my old car lol

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<B>I was coming home the other night and hit a rabbit with the front of the car, I braked hard and looked behind me and it hobbled off. I went back to check on it and it was looking rather limp on the grass verge, I didn't know what to do. A man was walking past with his dog and said what's up, I told him what happened and said we'd have to put it out of it's misery. "Just a minute" he said and removed a small bottle from his pocket and opened it and waved it under the rabbits nose. The rabbit jumped up and took off, I said "That's amazing, what's in the bottle.. Smelling salts?" to which he replied "No, Hare Restorer!!!"</B>


O.M.


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i hit a hare on my R1 at snetterton, end of the straight-150mph ish, killed it (as you'd think) but the bike didn't flinch. thats a proper suspension set up for you

Tiggs

 

Since moving to the country 18 mnths ago, there have been untold At least 1 every 2 weeks & I'm not trying

Also they've retaliated with a headlight, a fog light & a bumper - vectra not PTMW! (few ).

It's war out ther folks

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by schuey:
<B>Hit rabbit after **** in car. I stopped, rabbit stopped. I went, rabbit went. Girlfriend was a bit shocked but she just said drive on.[/quote]

The mind boggles... too many inuendos... !

 

Once pulled out a small (dead) rabbit from the front bumper of Dad's last Legacy

Dare I say it, a dead squirrel was pulled out from the intercooler of an Impreza on a rolling road 3year ago or so

 

Hit rabbit after **** in car. I stopped, rabbit stopped. I went, rabbit went. Girlfriend was a bit shocked but she just said drive on. I wanted to reverse and make sure it was dead.

I have hit plenty of birds, including a pheasent, not pretty.

I have also hit a badger, which I did report.

Would never swerve to avoid an animal unless something big, i.e cow, deer, horse.

Jon

 

one of my mates from work hit a badger in his 306 at about 70mph and it wrote his car off !!

 

My car hit a pidgeon which I think was more or less killed, I wasn't driving at the time though Shark was

 

Cat
Bird
Rabbit
Hedgehog
Sheep (Hit its backend and it spun around about 4 times, before getting up and legging it back to the moors, seemingly OK )

DW

 

Told my sister than i hit a cat on a country lane, she said did i stop to see if it had a collar on?!! yeah right, as if im going to pick it out of the guts on the road....

Tony

 

Tony,

Even though I've hit rabbits on country lanes, I must say that If I hit a cat I would feel obliged to get out and check if it did have a collar, as most cats are hit in or around built up areas, but it in the middle of nowhere, there's not a lot you can do really.
So depending on the speed, how would you know if it's guts were all over the place with first checking.

 

Never mind country roads....

What about race tracks ??

Check this out &gt;&gt;&gt;

 

Rabbits (good - to many of them anyway)
Hare (pity)
Pheasants (taste good if not too mangeled)
Partridge
Pidgeon
Crow (good)
Deer
Loads of small birds - unknown provenence

Hit a pidgeon in my Landie, it went through the roo bar, which as sort of find around the wrap-around bits. It was like it went through a tea-strainer. It was really dead.

Hit a pheasant at 90 in a BMW, made a nasty mess of the wing. Never found it.

Si

 

Hit a blackbird about 6 months ago, knew I'd killed it, but the folloing week when I came to clean the car did I find the top part of it's body just under the reg plate, and boy was it smelly

CRAFT

 

Haven't hit anything on the road recently but we quite a few hits on our test train.
Birds make quite a bang at 125! Fnar Fnar

Once had some large long beaked bird hit the front of a train at 100mph, which emdedded itself beak first into the GRP bodywork - it was still attached when we pulled into Peterborough station, much to the disgust of the passengers.

 

Once hit a stationary pigeon whilst driving the other half’s mini.... he just refused to budge after numerous beeps on the horn and as I was doing about 40 in traffic I didn’t have many options, so just winced a bit and hit ‘im, kinda sounded like hitting a ping pong ball, missus’ looks round and quickly turns back with hand over mouth and looking decidedly pale. I look in the mirror and yes, he’s still standing there but about 2 inches shorter!

 

Do humans count?

I ran over one of my mates once. He was stopped on his bike waiting to do a u-turn - he did a "life-saver" and didn't see me so basically he did a u-turn into a car (mini) doing 30mph. He bounced off the a-pillar.
He was ok(ish)

Hit a hare once - sickening shattering sound under the car.

Also clocked (but didn't kill) a cat at 30mph - it pulled out in front of me doing about 10mph, I beeped the horn, then did 10-30 in about 0.5 seconds. It then did 30mph for about 100 metres until we came to a tight right hander where it flew off into the bushes.
Cats are ****e round corners - dogs are much better.

 

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<B>Was on a "Mission" one night in Savernake Forest. Hit a deer. It smashed the hell out of the car. We all jumped out ,and the thing just ran off !!! The lights ,radiator and bumper where all over the place. Would hate to hit cow etc.....

Anything small I will just hit it. Sorry but too many folk die trying to miss the basterds.

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got to agree. my mate was riding down an a road on his fireblade and got smacked in the head by a starling while doing 70. it almost ripped his head off

 

Went over the a crest in my 306 doing about 80 to see a herd of (big red) deer all over the road.

Swerved round most of them, but then hit the last one full on. I hadn't slowed down much because I had tried to steer through instead.

Huge thump as I punted it off the road, nasty red smear all over the remains of the front of the car.

Needed new bonnet, BOTH front wings, headlamps, foglights, bumper, spoiler, radiator, grill...
And that little piece of plastic which covers the windscreen wiper mounting nut.

Still drove well though.

 

Fox vs. 80mph Scoob.

Cost ~£2000 to fix......the fox paid with it's life.

Richard