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

Vertigo1 said:
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.
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if something jumps out in front of you then chances are you would have squashed it before your hands and feet start reacting.
 
Vertigo1 said:
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.
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Well, when I was a learner I always thought that too. It's like cadence braking - fine in theory but in practice you tend to just hit the middle pedal and hold on for dear life.

But over the last 10 years (erk!) I've hit 3 sheep, 2 hares, 1 rabbit and a few birds so I guess it holds true for me at least - sod swerving, if you can't stop in time then just hit it.
 
Mate of mine, many years ago had a Suzuki GSXR-1100. One of the early "slab-side" ones. Skinny wee tyres, crappy handling and seriously powerful powerplant.

A pigeon hit him square in the chest on a ride out. He was doing around 90mph and the pigeon must have been flying at enough speed to take the combined speed up to 100.

Took him right off the bike like he had been "jousting".

Bike slid down the road, he looked like he was well injured. Blood and tissue everywhere, not to mention feathers. :p

He had a few cracked ribs and bruising. Pigeon was spread all over the place.
 
Draeger said:
Mate of mine, many years ago had a Suzuki GSXR-1100. One of the early "slab-side" ones. Skinny wee tyres, crappy handling and seriously powerful powerplant.

A pigeon hit him square in the chest on a ride out. He was doing around 90mph and the pigeon must have been flying at enough speed to take the combined speed up to 100.

Took him right off the bike like he had been "jousting".

Bike slid down the road, he looked like he was well injured. Blood and tissue everywhere, not to mention feathers. :p

He had a few cracked ribs and bruising. Pigeon was spread all over the place.
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Lovely :D

Worst ive had is a huge bee to the foreheed. :mad: That was actually pretty sore.
 
DannyDan said:
Agreed. Comments like "rabbits aren't even worth braking for" get a great big :rolleyes: from me.
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O please get a life, its a rabbit. Yes its sad if you hit it, but i would rather take one out that end up on the wrong side of the road and maybe killing a family of 4 on their way to church .
 
teaboy5 said:
O please get a life, its a rabbit. Yes its sad if you hit it, but i would rather take one out that end up on the wrong side of the road and maybe killing a family of 4 on their way to church .
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Too many hippies on this forum tbh.

I once was outside asda and an asda van driver was reversing,a pigeon was stood just behind his back wheel......i said to him but he ignored me and i got to see a pigeon slowly get crushed by a ****** van! Now thats annoying. :mad:
 
Jonny ///M said:
Too many hippies on this forum tbh.

I once was outside asda and an asda van driver was reversing,a pigeon was stood just behind his back wheel......i said to him but he ignored me and i got to see a pigeon slowly get crushed by a ****** van! Now thats annoying. :mad:
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Whats he going to do, get out and carefully ask it to move!

If its too stupid to move out the way its either injured or dying so its on its way out anyway!
 
Jonny ///M said:
Too many hippies on this forum tbh.

I once was outside asda and an asda van driver was reversing,a pigeon was stood just behind his back wheel......i said to him but he ignored me and i got to see a pigeon slowly get crushed by a ****** van! Now thats annoying. :mad:
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I dont if your agreeing with me there are not
 
I hit a flock of pigeons in my 147 a few years ago. There were still feathers in the engine bay 2 years later when I swapped the car.
 
Wild animals smaller than Deer = Bumper fodder.

There's no way I'd risk it for a Fox etc. I keep drumming this into the wife, because she's the sort to swerve like a maniac. I hope she remembers what I say!
 
There were 2 Swans on the road during rush the other morning. Just standing there, totally oblivious to the mayhem they were causing around them. Made me 15 minutes late for work.

I remember one time as a kid picking a dead sparrow off the front of my fathers van. He must have hit it so hard that it literally stuck to the front of the vehicle. I haven't managed that myself yet...
 
was gonna say, if your near a nuclear plant, and a 7 ft fluffy mutant rabbit hops out in front of you, prob best to swerve then :eek:
 
If it's smaller than a deer and it doesn’t move then too bad I don't swerve for it.. TBH there is 100,000's of rabbits so killing a few won't make any difference.

Pheasants are pretty solid, One knocked my fog light out of the Mini Bumper at 70mph and another cracked my dad's windscreen, but he was going quite fast :eek:
 
Agreed - I'm not a swerver. Learnt that one a long time ago when I first started driving. I'd only passed my test a month or so previously, and managed to try and swerve for a bunny going over a crest round a bend. I ended up fishtailing wildly, correcting and overcorrecting a good 3 or 4 times before the car snapped straight again a little further down the road.

It totally scared the crap out of me, and I now don't swerve. Brake hard, yes. I'd rather hit something fairly substantial than risk losing control like that again and get into a possible car-rolling situation.

Although, since I've moved from soggy suspension fiestas and cavaliers to my lowered gti, it's now possible to swerve in semi-safety. As I discovered the night of the high winds the other week, when cruising along at night, partially blinded by an oncoming car, when a fallen and sawn up 3 foot wide tree trunk had been left sticking out half a car width into the road. That was scary!
 
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