exploded a partridge today! What have you hit?
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Roofless Toothless said:
As someone who lived near Epping Forest for many years, that's tosh!
There was a plumber who lived at the other end of my road. One morning I found him ruefully contemplating the front of his white transit. The windscreen was smashed, as was the roof immediately above it. He said he had hit a deer the night before. I said I was amazed at how high up it had got. He assured me the thing was actually coming DOWN at the moment of impact!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIkoS1iKHOEThere was a plumber who lived at the other end of my road. One morning I found him ruefully contemplating the front of his white transit. The windscreen was smashed, as was the roof immediately above it. He said he had hit a deer the night before. I said I was amazed at how high up it had got. He assured me the thing was actually coming DOWN at the moment of impact!
There's one I don't like to remember.
Coming around a corner on a semi-urban road I happened upon this...
Imagine a yellow VW Beetle. Stand a horse in front of it, smash a small hole
in both the windscreen and rear screen. Then attach the reins to a tractor
and pull the horse right through towards the back of the car.
When I arrived, Dobbin was screaming frantically but the woman in the driver's seat was ominously
quiet. The girl who'd been on the horse was comatose on the verge - not a mark on her but
there was horse blood everywhere, it was running down the grid.
A vet quickly put the horse down right there and then. The fire brigade were sawing at the
VW's roof pillars at the same time. They ripped off the roof, rolled the horse off to the side
and so were able to attend to the driver. It was a Hell of a mess.
The driver survived but ended up a paraplegic - I expect the girl never went near a horse again.
I couldn't understand how the horse had been stretched through the cabin., its head was on the engine lid.
The impact can't have been at more than 40mph. It was a sizeable horse too, no My Little Pony there. Catastrophe.
So, my rule of thumb. If it isn't a police horse it probably isn't good at traffic.
Coming around a corner on a semi-urban road I happened upon this...
Imagine a yellow VW Beetle. Stand a horse in front of it, smash a small hole
in both the windscreen and rear screen. Then attach the reins to a tractor
and pull the horse right through towards the back of the car.
When I arrived, Dobbin was screaming frantically but the woman in the driver's seat was ominously
quiet. The girl who'd been on the horse was comatose on the verge - not a mark on her but
there was horse blood everywhere, it was running down the grid.
A vet quickly put the horse down right there and then. The fire brigade were sawing at the
VW's roof pillars at the same time. They ripped off the roof, rolled the horse off to the side
and so were able to attend to the driver. It was a Hell of a mess.
The driver survived but ended up a paraplegic - I expect the girl never went near a horse again.
I couldn't understand how the horse had been stretched through the cabin., its head was on the engine lid.
The impact can't have been at more than 40mph. It was a sizeable horse too, no My Little Pony there. Catastrophe.
So, my rule of thumb. If it isn't a police horse it probably isn't good at traffic.
I’ll rephrase to say I was doing 60mph when I hit the pidgeon :Pjamies30 said:
I saw this little guy flying out from the verge right in front of me on the way to work one day, but didn’t hear or feel anything so assumed I’d somehow missed him. Only noticed him when I was getting back in the car to go home.
Poor feathery chum.
Pah! Posted this before but here it is again. On the A30 a few years ago. Saw it flying across from my right, couldn’t swerve, thought I’d just caught it a glancing blow until I realised a load of cars coming the other way were flashing me. Pulled in at the next services. There was a lot of blood and mess inside the light fitting. Poor feathery chum.
easytiger123 said:
Pah! Posted this before but here it is again. On the A30 a few years ago. Saw it flying across from my right, couldn’t swerve, thought I’d just caught it a glancing blow until I realised a load of cars coming the other way were flashing me. Pulled in at the next services. There was a lot of blood and mess inside the light fitting.
Jeez! 
RC1807 said:
easytiger123 said:
Pah! Posted this before but here it is again. On the A30 a few years ago. Saw it flying across from my right, couldn’t swerve, thought I’d just caught it a glancing blow until I realised a load of cars coming the other way were flashing me. Pulled in at the next services. There was a lot of blood and mess inside the light fitting.
Jeez! Badgers are f
king solid.
I hit a dead one in my old Punto GT that had a stupidly low ride height and I was following a car too close and didn't see it until the last second, nearly turned the car over, I can still hear the sound of skull grinding along the road as it was stuck under the car/sump for a few metres until it popped out of the back. Still makes me feel sick when I think about it.
Luckily I've only managed to kill a couple of rabbits and had a sparrow stuck in the grill once.
We did hit a sheep once up in the Welsh hills many years ago now when my dad was a lorry driver and I was a young lad, it bounced off and rolled down a hill, but even that made a massive bang and shook the wagon, I can't imagine what hitting a cow or a big deer at speed in a car would feel like.
king solid.I hit a dead one in my old Punto GT that had a stupidly low ride height and I was following a car too close and didn't see it until the last second, nearly turned the car over, I can still hear the sound of skull grinding along the road as it was stuck under the car/sump for a few metres until it popped out of the back. Still makes me feel sick when I think about it.
Luckily I've only managed to kill a couple of rabbits and had a sparrow stuck in the grill once.
We did hit a sheep once up in the Welsh hills many years ago now when my dad was a lorry driver and I was a young lad, it bounced off and rolled down a hill, but even that made a massive bang and shook the wagon, I can't imagine what hitting a cow or a big deer at speed in a car would feel like.
A guy told me the story when he hit a deer in his van. No damage to the van so he stopped, heaved the dead deer into the back of the van to take to his butcher friend. Ten minutes later he looks in the rear mirror to see two eyes staring back at him. Turns out he'd only stunned the poor deer - opened doors and released back into the wild.
Nothing too serious from me, but Ive only hit an animal in my old renault(so far, touch wood) A pheasant that split a bit of plastic, but still got splatted, and a deer that ran out in front late at night with 2 of its mates, hit it's back leg,it ran off into the woods, but OH still insisted going back to look for it
Oh,and a hedgehog
Oh,and a hedgehog
techiedave said:
gloating and celebrating the death of one of gods creatures is shocking. Why not swerve to avoid these gracious creatures
My school bus went through pheasant country. The driver would happily risk 40-50 little lives to avoid 1 pheasant and nearly took us out a couple of times. I would never swerve under any circumstances unless the creature was big enough that hitting it would be worse.
Vandenberg said:
techiedave said:
gloating and celebrating the death of one of gods creatures is shocking. Why not swerve to avoid these gracious creatures
Friend of mine did just that, she had a choice, hit the furry critter or a wall, she choose the wall. The wall won and she left two children motherless.She was a moron.
I was taking the piss when I posted it
Unfortunately it isn't remotely funny now after reading about your friend. I am sorry if it brought up bad memories
DavieW said:
A guy told me the story when he hit a deer in his van. No damage to the van so he stopped, heaved the dead deer into the back of the van to take to his butcher friend. Ten minutes later he looks in the rear mirror to see two eyes staring back at him. Turns out he'd only stunned the poor deer - opened doors and released back into the wild.
Woody Allen has a variation on this.https://youtu.be/xmnLRVWgnXU
A few over the years.
Recently a rabbit and an unidentified furry critter, no idea what it was. Felt bad for days.
Missed a cat by millimetres on the A4, on a bend at 60 leptons. No idea how I didn't see it, I think it was obscured behind the A piller, no way was I going to brake and waited for the the thud, which never came ... one lucky kitty ...
Friend of mine swerved for a bunny on the A34, at around 75 leptons, ended up fish tailing down the road, leaving the road and rolling the car. Fortunately ok, apart from the car.
Recently a rabbit and an unidentified furry critter, no idea what it was. Felt bad for days.
Missed a cat by millimetres on the A4, on a bend at 60 leptons. No idea how I didn't see it, I think it was obscured behind the A piller, no way was I going to brake and waited for the the thud, which never came ... one lucky kitty ...
Friend of mine swerved for a bunny on the A34, at around 75 leptons, ended up fish tailing down the road, leaving the road and rolling the car. Fortunately ok, apart from the car.
I hit a small bird whilst doing 70 on a dual carriageway - it hid the windscreen and didn’t explode but just went vertical. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a small black lump fall and hit the ground after I’d traveled about 200m.
I also got hit by a MAMIL once - I was in my Golf Mk 2 convertible with the roof down stopped at some traffic lights at the bottom of a hill. He came barrelling along and couldn’t stop, hit the rear bumper and went over the handlebars and end up sat in my rear seat. I had to get out and pull the seat forward to let him out.
I also got hit by a MAMIL once - I was in my Golf Mk 2 convertible with the roof down stopped at some traffic lights at the bottom of a hill. He came barrelling along and couldn’t stop, hit the rear bumper and went over the handlebars and end up sat in my rear seat. I had to get out and pull the seat forward to let him out.
easytiger123 said:
Pah! Posted this before but here it is again. On the A30 a few years ago. Saw it flying across from my right, couldn’t swerve, thought I’d just caught it a glancing blow until I realised a load of cars coming the other way were flashing me. Pulled in at the next services. There was a lot of blood and mess inside the light fitting.
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