Sometimes there really isnt anything you can do. Me and my horse were runover when I was 13 years old - it was horrendous but nothing the driver could have done - horse bolted out of a side road after we were chased by teenagers on BMX's - luckily traffic was very slow, horse rolled off the bonnet, I landed on the roof - we were both fine apart from a few gashes and bruises but the car was a write off, smashed windscreen and a very traumatised driver. Could have been a lot worse.
I hit a cat a few years ago, this will sound silly but it's like it wanted to die, I was driving down a narrow road, cars parked on either side so very squashed.
As I was coming up to the cat I could see it to my left on the pavement just sitting there looking at my car, then out of nowhere as I was driving past it, it dived under my front wheel!
I felt a sickening crush and it was like my car went over a mini-hill, I stopped and looked back and it was lying on the road, there was nothing I could do, I could see it wasn't breathing, I felt guilty for weeks and weeks. I'd never dream of hitting an animal.
Just thinking about thet two pigeons I hit on Friday in the space of 200m. They must have been half asleep at 5:30am, even braked for them and still didn't move fast enough.
Pheasants are really as dumb, its like they wait till you are almost upon them before running out, must have hit at least a dozen so far. Rabbits are not much better, really do freeze in terror when your headlights light them up.
I have hit a fe animals in 12 years of driving. A pheasant, a few rabbits and plenty if birds. Can't say I get upset but I do check they're dead before I continue my journey. Not sure what I'd do it they weren't though
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Ah that's really cute, lucky thing
Probably totally unaware of his lucky escape.
As I was coming up to the cat I could see it to my left on the pavement just sitting there looking at my car, then out of nowhere as I was driving past it, it dived under my front wheel!
I felt a sickening crush and it was like my car went over a mini-hill, I stopped and looked back and it was lying on the road, there was nothing I could do, I could see it wasn't breathing, I felt guilty for weeks and weeks. I'd never dream of hitting an animal.
My dad found our cat placed on the grass near our house having been run over
I'm really scared of hitting an animal, it must be awful
Well maybe not rats, I'd probably swerve into their direction to be honest!
Pheasants are really as dumb, its like they wait till you are almost upon them before running out, must have hit at least a dozen so far. Rabbits are not much better, really do freeze in terror when your headlights light them up.
Someone will likely run a scanner over it to see if it has been microchipped.