exploded a partridge today! What have you hit?
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I hit a cow, once.
A big, heavy, black cow, at night.
At 60mph.
A car coming the other way hit the two other cows that had escaped from a field.
It was like a scene from a horror film when I got out the car.
Every panel of my then new ish Mondeo V6 was dented.
I reckon the bonnet saved my life, as it rose up on impact and prevented the cow from entering the car through the (demolished) windscreen.
Scary stuff.
A big, heavy, black cow, at night.
At 60mph.
A car coming the other way hit the two other cows that had escaped from a field.
It was like a scene from a horror film when I got out the car.
Every panel of my then new ish Mondeo V6 was dented.
I reckon the bonnet saved my life, as it rose up on impact and prevented the cow from entering the car through the (demolished) windscreen.
Scary stuff.
Surprised nobody has posted pics yet : www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106993
paua said:
Surprised nobody has posted pics yet : www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106993
Looks like a baby deer or maybe a fox, but still 
at "grilled venison" from the comments there.Good few years ago on the way to work came over the slightest of a brow, to discover that the only thing it was capable of hiding was a family consisting of mother duck, and six ducklings, spread about 2 feet apart, in a line, across the road.
I had to choose which ones were about to become ex duckings, and then remove them from the under bonnet grill later that day, where they were stuck head first.
Had a narrow run in with a family of deer last year. Tow made it through - no ideer (sorry!) how I avoided the second. Seem's a XC60 can swerve better than I expected. Fortunately the rest of the pack decided not to cross at that time....
I had to choose which ones were about to become ex duckings, and then remove them from the under bonnet grill later that day, where they were stuck head first.
Had a narrow run in with a family of deer last year. Tow made it through - no ideer (sorry!) how I avoided the second. Seem's a XC60 can swerve better than I expected. Fortunately the rest of the pack decided not to cross at that time....
Countless small animals and birds. Hit a full size badger at about 40 mph in my mk2.5 mx5. It hit dead centre in the front of the car. Badger was proper f
ked but somehow not a mark on the car and no damage underneath. Actually felt the car lift up as I went over it, like running over a concrete block.
A more amusing one was hitting a squirrel with the nearside front and hearing it do several laps around the wheel arch before falling out.
A mate also learnt that if he hit pheasants in his hilux it just decapitated them and left the body intact for him to stop and pick up.
ked but somehow not a mark on the car and no damage underneath. Actually felt the car lift up as I went over it, like running over a concrete block.A more amusing one was hitting a squirrel with the nearside front and hearing it do several laps around the wheel arch before falling out.
A mate also learnt that if he hit pheasants in his hilux it just decapitated them and left the body intact for him to stop and pick up.
Son was working at a rural pub about 10 miles from home, I got a call at 11.30pm asking for help as he'd just hit a badger. Number plate split in two, lower bumper scraping on the floor.
I drove to him and we removed the number plate and managed to push the bumper up enough so he could drive it. Badger had wandered off long ago.
Half a mile from home he clatters another badger. Two in 20 minutes.
I drove to him and we removed the number plate and managed to push the bumper up enough so he could drive it. Badger had wandered off long ago.
Half a mile from home he clatters another badger. Two in 20 minutes.
techiedave said:
gloating and celebrating the death of one of gods creatures is shocking. Why not swerve to avoid these gracious creatures
In my case they were in a line, across the road. The only way I was not going to take out a ducking was to crash into a field, probably on my roof.JuniorD said:
Anyone recall the thread where a certain PHer argued blind that “animals don’t appear out of nowhere” and if you’re driving properly to the conditions you should never hit the likes of a deer and he ALWAYS drove in a manner that it would never happen to him.
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!
jamies30 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.
Aww, poor thing! What a way to go though, head first into an RZ! Poor feathery chum.
One of my all time favourite cars, saw yours at the Fennel V8 breakfast a few months ago, my son was blown away by it
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.
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