M1 casualties are interesting

[Dr Jekyll]

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...

[Efbe]

wallaby???!?

[Glasgowrob]

A303 seems a bit of a killing field

[Jimmy Recard]

What the hell was the wallaby doing there?

[Jimmy Recard]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1496645/Rec...

Just googled and found this

[ging84]

All the ones with over 100 seem to be in the west country

suspect there is a reporting bias

[Eddie Strohacker]

The A35 badger community seem very depressed.

[loose cannon]

Most likely scenario, I reported running into a dear a long time ago, I have never reported for a badger I hit once or the couple of foxes I have hit over the years, the most astounding thing I see regularly is how a mouse or shrew can run so Dam quick across the road with the tiniest of legs impressive

[Efbe]

odd, though... only 1 rabbit, and no cows?

[Starfighter]

There is a population of wallaby living in the Peak District. They were released from a private collection at the start of WWII and have lived across the park ever since. There are other groups elsewhere.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/11/britains-wil...

[Eddie Strohacker]

A27 zilch. This is clearly because it's impossible to exceed 10mph across it's entire length.

[TooMany2cvs]

Starfighter said:

There is a population of wallaby living in the Peak District. They were released from a private collection at the start of WWII and have lived across the park ever since. There are other groups elsewhere.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/11/britains-wil...

^ This is true... They've evolved thicker fur since their escape.

[FourWheelDrift]

Wallaby could also have been a descendant of one of the many that have escaped from Whipsnade Zoo in the 1950s. They live wild around the area and could easily have made it to the M1 which is only 6 miles away.

This one was across the M1 on the way to Cambridge - http://www.dunstabletoday.co.uk/news/wild-wallaby-...

[spookly]

I think all it proves is that the government are idiots. The data has no significance when some of the roads run for 100+ miles. Surely if they want useful data they should have done it by region.

A bit like those signs they have to scare people, saying 34 people killed or maimed on this road last year..... yeah but the A38 is 292 miles long and all of the accidents might have been a long way from here :-)

[TooMany2cvs]

spookly said:

I think all it proves is that the government are idiots. The data has no significance when some of the roads run for 100+ miles. Surely if they want useful data they should have done it by region.

A bit like those signs they have to scare people, saying 34 people killed or maimed on this road last year..... yeah but the A38 is 292 miles long and all of the accidents might have been a long way from here :-)

They answered the question they were asked.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-...

The person who wanted to know said:

I would be grateful if you could please provide the following information concerning roadkill on motorways and major roads in England via email under the Freedom of Information Act:
Q1. Please provide the number of dead animals found on roads in 2016 and in 2017 to date
Please break down the figures by animal type.
Q2. Please can you disclose where (by road name) the incident took place?

[Yipper]

TooMany2cvs said:

Starfighter said:

There is a population of wallaby living in the Peak District. They were released from a private collection at the start of WWII and have lived across the park ever since. There are other groups elsewhere.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/11/britains-wil...

^ This is true... They've evolved thicker fur since their escape.

There are about 100-200 wallabies living wild across the UK and IoM in fairly established (but vulnerable) populations.

Also, wild goat, boar, racoon, skunk, coypu, chipmunk, beaver, parakeet and wildcat. Plenty of exotica, but very hard to spot.

There are also semi-wild wolves on the England-Wales border (honestly).

[Stickyfinger]

A303....I wonder how many of those badges had gunshot wounds

[Gnits]

The people reporting this can tell the difference between a ferret a mink and a polecat, really ?
You've flattened it and you can still tell the difference, I smell less Mustelid and more BS!

[TooMany2cvs]

Gnits said:

The people reporting this can tell the difference between a ferret a mink and a polecat, really ?
You've flattened it and you can still tell the difference, I smell less Mustelid and more BS!

They're weaselly identified from each otter.

[Gnits]

That's cos they're stoatally different.