Deer Troubles..
Discussion
Any animal lovers had better not read on too much….
On Sunday last late afternoon it had stopped raining much earlier in the day and with the strong wind the roads had all dried out and it looked as though it was going to be a terrific sunset so decided to go for sun down cruise. Had a great time out for an hour or so but on the way back home and not going particularly quickly (…ish) along an unlit country road I passed a car going in the opposite direction but before I could flick the lights back up on too full main beam (by this time it was dark) I caught sight of a small seeker deer in the dip light beam running across the road. To be honest I barely had time for braking and tried to drive around the back of the running animal but without much luck. There was an almighty thud. I came to a halt and walked back up the road to where I thought I’d hit the animal but couldn’t see anything on the road or more likely lying in the ditch but since I was stopped on an unlit sweeping blind bend dressed in jeans and a black shirt driving a dark grey coloured car I decided I had already pushed my luck and returned to move the car to a better place to stop and look at the damage.
At first it looked as though there was no damage at all but then I realised that the indicator lens was missing on the nearside and more than that the bulb, bulb holder and wiring were all missing with just the access hole at the rear of the silver indicator unit visible. The main light pod on the nearside was unaffected and went up and down quite happily and appeared undamaged. There appears to have been no other damaged sustained but I remain very suspicious given the heavy impact. What should I check that may not be immediately obvious with regards to the bodywork? Would I expect to find crease marks if the glass fibre had been compressed sharply on one side only creating a sort of twisting motion? Or is the body generally regarded to be stiff enough to take reasonably significant front end impact. I appreciate that an animal despite the impression of a heavy impact would have offered little by way of resistance and so impact force may not have been as much as it first appeared. Having said that a colleague at work hit a stationary seeker deer and wrote the front end of his car off!!!
Any advice other than drive slower and don’t hit more animals?
Concerned of Cambridgeshire!
On Sunday last late afternoon it had stopped raining much earlier in the day and with the strong wind the roads had all dried out and it looked as though it was going to be a terrific sunset so decided to go for sun down cruise. Had a great time out for an hour or so but on the way back home and not going particularly quickly (…ish) along an unlit country road I passed a car going in the opposite direction but before I could flick the lights back up on too full main beam (by this time it was dark) I caught sight of a small seeker deer in the dip light beam running across the road. To be honest I barely had time for braking and tried to drive around the back of the running animal but without much luck. There was an almighty thud. I came to a halt and walked back up the road to where I thought I’d hit the animal but couldn’t see anything on the road or more likely lying in the ditch but since I was stopped on an unlit sweeping blind bend dressed in jeans and a black shirt driving a dark grey coloured car I decided I had already pushed my luck and returned to move the car to a better place to stop and look at the damage.
At first it looked as though there was no damage at all but then I realised that the indicator lens was missing on the nearside and more than that the bulb, bulb holder and wiring were all missing with just the access hole at the rear of the silver indicator unit visible. The main light pod on the nearside was unaffected and went up and down quite happily and appeared undamaged. There appears to have been no other damaged sustained but I remain very suspicious given the heavy impact. What should I check that may not be immediately obvious with regards to the bodywork? Would I expect to find crease marks if the glass fibre had been compressed sharply on one side only creating a sort of twisting motion? Or is the body generally regarded to be stiff enough to take reasonably significant front end impact. I appreciate that an animal despite the impression of a heavy impact would have offered little by way of resistance and so impact force may not have been as much as it first appeared. Having said that a colleague at work hit a stationary seeker deer and wrote the front end of his car off!!!
Any advice other than drive slower and don’t hit more animals?
Concerned of Cambridgeshire!
Check all your shut lines for bits of deer.. I hit a pheasant on the M25 in my old SEAC doing about 70-ish. Bal (Phantastic on P-heads) was following me in his Griff and thought he had missed the bits on bird that shot out from under the wedge. When he got home, he went to open the passenger door and found half the bird stuck to the sill. Don't ask me about the damage caused by the badger the SEAC hit...
Emmdat said:
Magog said:
Can i ask what a seeker deer is?
They are really small deer that are about the size of medium sized dog such as a labrador. They seem to run wild in various parts of the cambridgeshire fens and haven't yet learn't the 'Green Cross Code' when crossing the road!!Maybe you can nip back and dig the indicator assembly out of the animal's forehead ?
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