exploded a partridge today! What have you hit?

exploded a partridge today! What have you hit?

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youngricharduk

235 posts

84 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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I hit a dog at 30mph a few years ago, it was spooked by another dog that had escaped and ran out from behind a stone wall. I didn't know what I'd hit at first then when I got out I had to watch the poor thing slowly die while it made some horrific noises. Had to make an insurance claim as the bill was over £1500 for the bumper etc.

Plinth

713 posts

87 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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The seagull survived this 170mph impact with a "damaged wing", but the Yamaha needed a new fairing.
(Ian Hutchinson, IoM TT practice 2012)



Any birds that have been hit by my cars over the years (at much lower speeds!) have not been so lucky...

alorotom

11,907 posts

186 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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I’ve exploded a few pigeons, the last of which was in a convertible with the roof off and I ended up covered in fat and feathers

I’ve also had a drunk man bounce off the passenger wing and bonnet before late one night on a very dark stretch of dual carriageway who refused to go to hospital and staggered off into the darkness and when I went and reported it to the police (to cover my own back) they cautioned me for hit and run!

fat80b

2,242 posts

220 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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My Father hit a flock of sheep on the A55 many years ago. It was a dark and slightly misty night and he thought he saw a patch of fog in the road...... I think 6 sheep didn't make it.

His Volvo 740 survived with barely a scratch.

Roofless Toothless

5,610 posts

131 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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A few years back I was driving one of my Caterhams through Chelmsford when a starling leapt out of a front garden and immolated himself on my car.

Well, not strictly, he actually caught me square on the forehead. I have found that birds very often play with the bow wave of a car, using it to flip out of the way just at the last minute. They are very good at this and seem to find pleasure in it. However, as my Caterham, with only Brooklands screens to cower behind, had no bow wave at all, and actually passed thought the air very much in the manner that a brick does. The starling hadn't reckoned on this at all.

It was a surprisingly big thump for such a small bird, and as I looked into my rear view mirror I could see a little puff of feathers still hanging in the air just at head high. And the face of the guy in the car behind laughing his socks off.

Vanordinaire

3,701 posts

161 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Roofless Toothless said:
It was a surprisingly big thump for such a small bird,
I can imagine. I've had a few beetles and bumblebees in the face at speed and even they feel like bullets!

Gilhooligan

2,211 posts

143 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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I tried and failed to avoid a deer which had just jumped onto the road through a gap in the hedge a few years ago. In my attempts to swerve out the way I put the car up a grass verge and clipped a hedge too, adding to the damage.
Still remember the loud thud it made as it bounced off the front of the car. Deer was well dead but gone the next morning when I went back to retrieve my missing fog lamp.

S11Steve

6,374 posts

183 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Years ago I was coming back from a girlfriends house at about 5am on a bright summer morning (drive of shame...?) and in the distance I saw a group of birds picking off some roadkill in the middle of the road.

I was a diesel Fiesta at somewhere just north of the speed limit, windows down and some nasty 90's big beat at full volume going on - the birds didn't even react to a good blast of the horn and ended up rattling underneath the car. and came out of the back in a messy cloud of feathers and splatter.

About half an hour later I'm still a good way from home, and the smell was making me heave as the remains were cooking on the exhaust underneath me.

I had to get it up on ramps at work to jet wash it properly - and bits of cooked magpie or crow were dropping all over the workshop floor. The mechanics were not impressed.

popeyewhite

19,621 posts

119 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Riding a Honda 250 many years ago whilst passing a farm the deranged farm collie that attacked anything ran out. Got the bike down to about 20 without falling off but still caught it with my footrest/leg. Managed a tiny 'kick' with my foot just before impact and it nearly took my leg off. My hip was sore for a month, dog was unharmed. Hit a couple of ducks trying to cross the M6 whilst I was driving a 911. Couldn't swerve and didn't feel much. When parked up later and indoors at work someone asked me what was sticking out of the front of my car. A decapitated duck's head, lodged in the low front grill like a bonnet mascot.

Oh and a cat a few years ago. I was in a car and the damn animal did that run out, run back, run out again thing and ran straight under the wheels of the car.

Edited by popeyewhite on Tuesday 16th October 12:15

xjay1337

15,966 posts

117 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Oh I forgot I was around Telford one day having a blast and I hit a pigeon doing about 120. It hit the windscreen. Didn't damage it at all.
But the pigeon exploded and I had loads of lumpy yellow and red bits all over the front of my car.

Quhet

2,409 posts

145 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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I've nailed a couple of pigeons but thankfully that's about it. I'd feel dreadful if I hit something like a badger

Tom_Spotley_When

496 posts

156 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Hit a Wood Pigeon once in the Jaguar.

Bounced off the A pillar and cartwheeled down the road behind me.

Friend's dad was hit in the helmet by an Owl in his motorbiking days. Said his neck hurt for a couple of months afterwards.

J4CKO

41,279 posts

199 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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I hit a Pheasant at speed, on my Bicycle, it hit me under the chin and ended up sort of on my arm, silly fker scuttled out of a hedegrow and tried to get airborne but I was in its way.

Anyway, I sort of held it a bit so I could stop without dropping it and riding over it, so I waited until I stopped and dropped it.

It landed on its back and didnt move for a second or two, it, for all the world looked like it was rebooting after crashing, it then flopped back onto its legs and legged it, it nearly got collected by a car (driven by a bemused lady who saw me release it) but managed to take to the air, and as it went it made a very indignant squawking noise, which carried on until it found a place to land, and then it carried on some more, and more, until I was out of earshot.

it was like that driver that pulls out on you, then gets all aggressive when you beep, should have ridden over the thick .

an OP,

I Hope you said "Needless to say, I had the last laugh ?"

JuniorD

8,616 posts

222 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Two wood pigeons perfectly timed an orthogonal fly past to meet my windscreen, leaving two big greasy smears. I was doing 60 mph and they both landed on the road behind me in feathery explosions but there was no sign of them a hour later when I came back.

br d

8,388 posts

225 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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I got run over by a horse once.

As kids we used to buy terrible old motorbikes, strip them down and take them over the fields as dirt bikes. Mine had conked out and I was trying to kick it back into life when I heard a terrifying racket. I was on a narrow bridleway and I looked up to see a huge horse come galloping around the corner about 50 yards away. Sitting on it, hanging on for dear life and screaming at the top of her lungs was a girl of about 11.

I had nowhere to go so just threw myself sideways from the bike leaving it to tumble into the dirt. The horse clattered straight over it missing me by inches and hurtled up the lane and out of sight with the girl still screaming. Christ knows how she got on.

The bike was smashed! It had originally been a CD175 so it was pretty sturdy but the horse had destroyed it. The tank was flattened like an empty crisp packet, handlebars all twisted in and the exhaust punched into the gap by the wheel.

Scared the living crap out of me!

My 2 mates obviously thought it was the funniest thing they'd ever seen as they did that thing where you're laughing too hard to even breath for about 5 minutes.
bds.

davek_964

8,795 posts

174 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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xjay1337 said:
I have hit 2 deers
Both times took out my ac condenser.
vixen1700 said:
Hit a deer up near Audley End.

Pitch black November evening about 6.15 driving home from work, then BANG! This fking creature is in view on the driver's side coming from the left.

Not a chance to see it, let alone brake.

Stopped as did the car behind to get the stricken thing out of the road and saw a bone sticking out if its leg. Calmed it down for a couple of minutes and went to call the police then it just up and leapt over the nearby hedge. confused

£1400 Worth of damage to the front, lights, bonnet and wing of the car.

Freaked me right out!
Lightweights - I hit a deer, but I was riding a motorcycle (GSXR-750) - ran out from the trees on the left of the road as I was approaching Petworth. I'd recently overtaken another bike, who stopped as I was getting up off the road and told me it "looked really cool" as the bike and I somersaulted through the air.

Inevitably, it happened while I was having a new zip put in my leather jacket - so I was borrowing my g/f's.Cheap garbage which split when I hit the road - elbow was gouged with a nice deep hole. Smashed bodywork, deer hair packed between the front tyre and the wheel rim - and a dead deer obviously.

Sold the bike as damaged. Got a phone call about 6 months later, from a guy saying he'd bought it from the people who had purchased it from me - but since they hadn't put their details on the V5, I was the last registered owner. The bike had been stolen, and he wanted some verification of the condition when I sold it to inform the insurance company.

I asked how it was when bought it :
"A lovely metallic blue, immaculate, 12k miles on the clock"

"Hmm - when I sold it, it was black, I'd just crashed it into a deer and it had done 30k miles."

There are some dodgy people in the world!

sc0tt

18,032 posts

200 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Kangaroo in a new Rav 4 whilst in western australia.

Made a big mess.

RC1807

12,481 posts

167 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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A wild boar.
RUINED the front end of my car.
Boars are heavy fkers!

Tomo1971

1,127 posts

156 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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I saw two hedgehogs crossing an NSL single carriage way a few months ago, the first had already moved to the oncoming lane and I dodged the 2nd one (went under my car) but heard it POP as an oncoming car went over it - sounded just like a balloon popping and was quite gross TBH.


j4ckos mate

3,009 posts

169 months

Tuesday 16th October 2018
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i hit two dogs when i first started driving,
one in the evening, then another the following morning,
never it one since,