A perfect example of why you shouldn't swerve for a rabbit..

pinkaardvark said:
There was no rabbit.. just one of those things you imagine was there shortly after you stack your car and realise what a cack driver you really are.
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Obviously I can't say for definate, or whether he's making it up, but why all the doubt?
 
Saying and doing are two very different things. No matter what you may think now, when something unexpectedly runs out in front of you, your natural instinct will be to avoid it. By the time you think rationally about the situation it could be too late.
 
aviod badgers, they nearly wiped my front bumper of my old corsa. O and if you do hit one don't get out there evil! :p
 
begbo said:
aviod badgers, they nearly wiped my front bumper of my old corsa. O and if you do hit one don't get out there evil! :p
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hehe, the only animal i would swerve for thats smaller than the windscreen height... i've seen the damage they do to cars and i'd rather stick mine in a ditch lol.
 
I remember years ago I was going along a road late at night and a deer jumped out of a hedge straight in front of me. I managed to swerve to the other side of the road and miss it but if there was another car coming then it would've been curtains. Come to think of it it probably would've been curtains if i'd hit the deer also. Luckily I haven't actually hit anything yet (in 9 years of driving).
I try my very best to avoid anything that jumps out, fair enough if you can't avoid it in time then that's it but hitting things on purpose seems a bit sick to me. :confused: I know how I feel when I lose a pet (lost some of our cats over the years to cars in the road outside the house, mainly from lunatics who seem to think a 30 limit is really a national speed limit, pretty good for a residential road) so I can't imagine how i'd feel if i'd hit someone elses pet.
 
tb2000 said:
I try my very best to avoid anything that jumps out, fair enough if you can't avoid it in time then that's it but hitting things on purpose seems a bit sick to me.
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Agreed. Comments like "rabbits aren't even worth braking for" get a great big :rolleyes: from me.
 
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i wont swerve for anything smaller than a large dog.

learnt that from the old man, he hit a big german shepard dog few years back in an escort estate, thing absolutely ****** the front end up, didnt realise how much damage it would do.

But for cats, rabbits, hedgehogs, pigeons, small dogs, id rather not be hospitalised for moving over for them, if theyre soft enough to sit in the road when lights are flashing its their fault.

I'd feel bad if i hit something as it is a living thing, but so am i, and i am mroe important im my eyes :)
 
It's bad, but you've got to learn to drop the -Oh ****! <swerve>- reflex... You've got to have the mentality that you -want- to hit it and just go for it. Normally it doesn't matter what you do, they'll jump around randomly at the last moment and you've no idea which way they'll go anyway. Even if you swerve, they're just as likely to get creamed when they so a suicidal leap into your grill than if you just go straight for them.

I tend to reflex brake fairly firmly, check mirrors, then if there's nothing there, brake hard. If there is someone behind, it's bunny-chicken.... I never swerve, it's just not worth it.
 
-westy- said:
My best mate wrote his car off 2 nights ago.

Basically, he swerved to avoid a rabbit, lost control of the car. The back end smashed into a telegraph pole, which then dropped onto 2 other cars. He then spun down the road, and ended up in a river.

It could have been over for him if he'd rolled, as he was in a 306 Cab, with the top down.

So, if a rabbit runs out in front of you, for crying out loud don't try to swerve to avoid it, flatten the ******.
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My friend hit a rabbit in his CSL - 3.5k repair bill for the splitter :o
 
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