Just had my first animal near miss....eek

Don't swerve for light game, it's far safer to run it down than swerve, particularly at speed. Don't become the woman who fatally hit a lamp post while swerving for a rat.

I've hit rabbits doing about 95 on a "private dual carriageway" in the middle of the night. You see them with about 1/3 a second to do anything about it if you're on dipped beams for other cars. Then you just hear a light "tha-dunk" as they pass under front then rear wheels, I imagine they end up about 6ft long.
 
Very occasionally if you're driving really early in the morning in the lakes you'll be the 1st car on the road since the day before, and very occasionally you'll encounter a duck sleeping in the road. So you line them up between the wheels and don't slow down, look in your mirror and you see the ducks head shoot up; "What the **** was that!!"
 
Travelling up to Bath once I remember the Ford Mundano in front hit a pheasant. It didn't come out the back of it until about 2 miles up the road when it suddenly flew out of his rear bumper (dead) and smacked in to my grill.

It was actually cooking and smelt rather pleasant.
 
I was driving down past Brunel University when I saw 3 sea gulls pecking at something in the road. The Brunel bus stop was situated right were the sea gulls were so I assume one of the students threw something in the road. Either way, 2 managed to fly off but one was a second two late and hit the front of my car and went over the roof. I looked in my rear window to see the poor sod being squished by the Land Rover behind me :p. Luckily, no damage!
 
Badger ran out on me while doing some (legal) speed on a country road. was the BIGGEST thing I have ever seen, did an emergency stop, my passenger was screaming and closed her eyes (she had no idea why I was stopping) and it just managed to dive in a hole before my left wheel hit it.

Cue one lucky badger and one surprised motorist! First close encounter of the animal kind :P
 
I hit a hare the other week actually, unfortunately hit right on the headlight and broke one of the fixing brackets, cue a whole new light assembly and a £300 bill. Joy.

You don't get to be scared by it until you've had a near miss with a kangaroo though, that's actually genuinely dangerous as their jumps take them to windscreen height if you're unlucky. You really don't want a kangaroo coming through your windscreen without warning...
 
I had an epic swerve last week at night.

What I THOUGHT was a huge dog coming across the road, happened to be a brown coloured bag that the wind had picked up and I am telling you, it looked like an animal because it came across the front of me so fast and without warning :D

Went from my lane to most of the way into the opposite lane and back to avoid it. Good thing it was a bag because if something was in the other lane there was no way I would have been able to stop in time. :(

Saw a cat get mangled by a 8 seater taxi van. Ran across in-front of me further up the road and he came right over it. Checked mirror as I went past and all I could see was the entire back of his van lit up in red with brake lights, no cat to be seen :o

I've only ever hit a rabbit, fingers crossed nothing bigger crosses my path. The only reason I will try evasive action is on account of my bodywork.
 
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