Goingboeing From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4875 posts, RR: 19 Reply 1, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 691 times:
1. one dog - on a mountain road - there was no way to avoid it
2. several birds - they all seemed attracted to my T-bird on the freeway
3. one deer - another mountain road -
USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Reply 5, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 669 times:
1 squirrel, though I think it lived cause I just got its tail and it sort of limped off the road...a weird site...and also a bird...ironically heading to the airport to go fly, just as I crested a hill at 35 a bird smashed into my windshield, died instantly and landed behind my car...wasn't a good omen lol...
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JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13 Reply 6, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 667 times:
I hit a cat that was already hit (but alive) and a rabbit. The strange thing is, those are only two things I've hit while driving and they were both on the same day & same trip but different counties. Now I don't know if this counts, but I also know I hit a mouse one night. I thought I saw something small dart in front of me. Curious what it was and if I ran over it, I went back and sure enough, there was a little flat mouse in the road.
The scariest incident was being a passenger in a car driven by my dad. We were returning from a fishing trip and had the boat tied to the top of the car. Coming over the hill on the highway, there was a freshly hit german-shepard lying perpendicular in the center of our lane. It was HUGE! My dad could only try to strattle it which he did, but the car was too low and the dog too big so the frame slammed into the dog. The jolt knocked the boat loose which fell down the side of the car.
N6376m From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 664 times:
Was a passanger in a car that hit a dog on Route 301 between Jacksonville and Gainesville, FL one night after a FL-GA game.
The sad thing was that the dog jumped out of a minivan on the northbound side of the road while the family was at a gas station. The dog got spooked and torn off into traffic. I hardly had time to say watch out before we hit it.
We were doing about 70 mph so we figured that nothing was going to be left. We kept going. I feel horrible for the family that had to watch their dog get hit in front of their eyes.
Goingboeing From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4875 posts, RR: 19 Reply 9, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 658 times:
Well, you don't exactly run OVER a deer! How much damage to your car?
No damage to the van actually - I hit the brakes hard, but the deer did a little "where am I gonna go" dance before opting to head off the road. Had he decided just a second or two sooner, he would have made it. I clipped it's hindquarters at about 20 mph. Technically I didn't kill the deer, but I broke it's leg and a trucker behind me put it out of it's misery with a gun.
KYIPpilot From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 1383 posts, RR: 7 Reply 11, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 651 times:
One bird for me. He flew right into the grill of my truck, and I found it stuck to the radiator. Almost have hit a few squirrels, but never actually hit one.
"It starts when you're always afraid; You step out of line, the man come and take you away" -Buffalo Springfield
Deltajax From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 647 times:
in my 2.5 years driving, i havent hit anything, yet. I will avoid anything that I can without causing harm to myself or substantial damage to my vehicle.
Captaingomes From Canada, joined Feb 2001, 6413 posts, RR: 58 Reply 13, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 639 times:
I once went over a seagull with my bicycle! Like George Costanza says, we have a deal (with pigeons, and I think the same with seagulls). The Seagull didn't move, and I ran over its wing, and got some feathers in my chain. Not a pretty sight. I actually stopped and got the seagull out of harm's way, but not much else I could to to it. I think it had a broken wing, and that's all. I guess it's the same as a pilot losing their medical?
I also ran over a squirrel once, and a rabbit another time.
The same place I ran over the rabbit, at about 90 km/h, I almost hit a bear!!! In the bear incident, I was driving my friend's Suburban at night, when out of the woods I see this black shaddow in an instance, I touched the brakes and swerved a bit. My friend said the bear tucked down, and if we had hit it, it would serve as somewhat of a ramp. I wouldn't want to see what damage that would do at 90 km/h!
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Jkw777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 625 times:
Hi all,
Not me myself, but I was in the car and the time.... On the same night me and a friend were out in 'The New Forest' plodding along a country lane.. All of a sudden.. 'BOOMF' car bounces
Got out and there's a poor hedgehog with its insides splattered on the road the poor begger!
Then about an hour later a group of Deer decide to run out in front of the car skidded to a halt.. Moved over to the right then they decide to walk in front of the car whilst we are pulling away.. Silly animals!
Redngold From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 6907 posts, RR: 51 Reply 16, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 625 times:
Both of my roadkills have sad stories attached... no kidding:
1 bird of unknown species, in Canada... on the way back to the U.S. And it flipped up and got stuck under the windshield wiper, so not only was I upset that I hit it, but I had to see it for almost an hour (my parents wouldn't let me stop because we were in a six car caravan with our relatives)... We had to stop and remove it from the car before we went through customs.
1 sparrow, here in my city. I stopped and picked it up to take it to the animal hospital to be euthanized but when I got out of my car, I locked my keys in the car. And it started to rain. So there I was sitting on the side of the road next to my car, soaking wet, cradling this dying sparrow, crying, and the little thing died in my hands. So sad. The AAA guy got there almost an hour later.
An-225 From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 3950 posts, RR: 45 Reply 17, posted (9 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 622 times:
I don't know about other states, but Colorado is full of suicidal squirrels. One jumped under my left back wheel, and I almost hit another one today, since it decided to run out in front of my car.
Alex.
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N312RC From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 2678 posts, RR: 18 Reply 18, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 593 times:
A bird cut across the road in front of me once and it smacked the front bumper of my truck... ended up flapping around in the turn lane for a while.
Imisspiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6203 posts, RR: 43 Reply 19, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 573 times:
I kill thousands of animals per year while driving, not counting insects. In the spring where I live, toads try to cross the road and there is no way to avoid them and one would be stupid to try.
For the larger animals though I've hit 2 dogs, one died and the other limped away, one bird who died instantly instead od the hawks claws and 1 cat.
It's been over 30 years since I hit the dog that died and I still remeber his facein the split second before I hit him. I hope no child spent the next days looking for his/her best friend.
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High_flyr69 From Australia, joined Apr 2001, 510 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 555 times:
First day on my learners i hit a kangaroo at 90 kms a hours in my dads 4WD with put a nice dent in the bull bar and about a week ago i cleaned up a crow on the main local road.
cheers
high_flyr69
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Prosimtec From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 21, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 545 times:
I hit a Pheasant that had flown out of a corn field and into my the path of my pick-up truck.
As it was a fresh kill, I took it home and ate it.
Once, we had a Goose fly into the side of the building where I worked. Damn thing went straight into a plate glass window and broke it's neck. One of the guys in the office took it home and had it for dinner.
LH526 From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 2257 posts, RR: 17 Reply 22, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 542 times:
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In early 2002 a friend of mine and I drove back from an airline memorabilia convention in the south of germany. It was one of the first great days of summer where the sun ist sill low but the thermometer reaches t-shirt temperatures.
We were driving at around 140 km/h when suddenly I saw a black something incoming from 1 o'clock high. I just could say the words "there is some bird co........" when, with a dump, loud *fump* damn thing raven said goodbye to his life when he smashed right between the frontdoor and the windshield. We were scared as hell and only saw the cadaver tumbling through the air onto another car. There was plenty of blood splatter on the windshield and we soon headed for the nearest parking spot exit to asses the damage and calm down our heartbeat. It was one huuuge raven and the impact sound was purely frightening.
Mario
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