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Just driven home from work, followed another car along the crescent by my house. As I was coming down the slope towards my road, I could see my cat at the side of the road. My cat decided to stroll across the road and sit on one of the speed bumps, the car in front made no attempt to brake or drive round him, instead purposely drove straight at him (at about 10mph). Thankfully my cat got out of the way in time.
Parked my car and went over to the car driver to ask why he felt the need to drive at my cat, he states he never saw him and apologised. There is no way he never saw the cat, I could see him from approx 100yards away and there was a car in front of me. He also smelt of alcohol, couldn't call the police as he was out of the car and he's a neighbour
I'm fuming
Parked my car and went over to the car driver to ask why he felt the need to drive at my cat, he states he never saw him and apologised. There is no way he never saw the cat, I could see him from approx 100yards away and there was a car in front of me. He also smelt of alcohol, couldn't call the police as he was out of the car and he's a neighbour
I'm fuming
ds.832ark said:
Not being funny but I'll take no avoiding action for any animal smaller than a dog, especially if there's other traffic around. Your cat shouldn't really have been in the road should it?
So at 10mph in a residential area (as was the case in the OP), you'd just run a cat over?832ark said:
Not being funny but I'll take no avoiding action for any animal smaller than a dog, especially if there's other traffic around. Your cat shouldn't really have been in the road should it?
Its not like my cat ran straight out in front of the car, he leisurely strolled across road and sat on a speed bump. The other car was doing 10-15mph with no cars in view approaching a speed bump. I'm sure the majority of people would slowly drive around the cat or at least stop and see what it was going to do. There was no excuse to drive straight at the cat in this situation.
832ark said:
If there was traffic around such as in the OP's case with a car behind me then I wouldn't be braking for it no. (Nor would I be accelerating at it and trying to hit it!)
I'd like to think most people would be able to stop at 10 mph, I was hardly tailgating the bloke in front of me. He had approx 50 meters of vision to see the cat was there. 832ark said:
Not being funny but I'll take no avoiding action for any animal smaller than a dog, especially if there's other traffic around. Your cat shouldn't really have been in the road should it?
I performed an emergency stop for a cat on my driving test. The examiner told me he could have failed me as the law only relates to dogs.832ark said:
At 10mph I think most small animals would be getting out of the way!
keep digging. What if a small child in a really convincing dog costume stumbles into the road in front of you? will you assess wether it's a person/animal before braking? There's a car behind you by the way, it could rear end you if you slow down although it's not your fault if the car behind hasn't left a big enough gap in case of an emergency stop.If you're trying to say that you wouldn't make any dangerous moves on the road to protect a small animal I can see your point but in this case, what the hell are you on about?
Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but are you fuming about something that didn't happen, just something that might have happened? Seems a bit like a waste of energy to me, if that's the case. It'll just aggravate your IBS (assuming you have it) not to mention stuff your HDL count.
Like I say, I may have missed something, though.
Like I say, I may have missed something, though.
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