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Accidentally running over animals.
victor mel
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Very stressful this morning on the way to work. There was a fledgling starling in the road. As I drove up it didn't move in time & I went over it. If it had stayed on the ground it would have been ok but as i drove over it must have panicked and flew up hitting the underside of the car. When I looked back it was tumbling in the road & looked dead. Its the first time I have ever hit an animal. I do feel very guilty.
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Sometimes there is nothing you can do. I've been driving a long time and only run over a couple of birds.. Well one flew right into my car
I have a freind who has wrote off three cars from hitting wild Deer. She is always running something over.. Very strange.
cost a bomb to put right,
If there was literally nothing you could do then don't feel guilty. Life comes and goes.
I've hit a partridge once. It was standing in a the middle lane of a three lane motorway. I changed lanes to avoid it but it still ran in front of me and left a big cloud of feathers when I hit it. The biggest thing I've hit is an owl. Luckily I've never hit anything big like a deer.
Phew......I'd really feel awful, although as others have said, it wouldn't be your fault. Usually, you would either not realise until it was too late, or not be able to react fast enough.
Also hit a pheasant once - killed it instantly, so put it in the boot, got my Dad to pluck it, clean it and hang it for me. Had it for a family supper!
Isn't that illegal? I'm sure it is,, its OK for the driver behind to take it but not the car that hit it..
What a strange law that is.. I expect (if its true) to stop people running them over on purpose?
ETA Seems it is true but you can pick up a Deer you hit just not a pheasant
I'm sure the cost to repair any damage to your car would outweigh any gain from getting any free venison or game bird.
Farmer got fined for not keeping his animals off the road and his insurance paid for my brother's new car.
i think it was a V6, it was a big thing anyway, something like this.
Pets it is worse to be honest, i was in a car driven by a friend a last year and we think we hit a cat, but it was a busy road and there was no way to go back to see if it was ok. Upset her and me to be honest. i would hate it if it happened to my cat, but sometimes you just can't stop.
Considering the amount of roadkill foxes I see when out driving I'm surprised anyone still argues that they need hunting...
Nothing I could have down to avoid it, but the sound it makes when it hits the car is awful.
I stopped the car and a man picked it up off the road and put it beside the gate of the house it ran out of. I felt sick for days.
(Apart from the damage you do by driving cars in the first place, so if you want to feel guilty about anything....)
Since then it's take me a lot longer to cut the grass because I edge forward a few inches at a time so that they have chance to get out of the way - which they usually do by leaping ahead of the mower.
It's funny how these things can get to you.
I managed to get lucky bugger out of the collection bin of my mower. Must have dodged the blades and got sucked in at the back.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101102998@N05/13934320466/
A friend had a car written off because a cow - crossing the lane with the herd from one field to another - got in a snit with another cow and it turned around and ran at my friend's BMW. It crashed into the bonnet and climbed up onto it before falling off the back. It sounds funny - and it probably was - but friend was traumatised for weeks.