Almost crashed my car coming home, or died, but survived without a scratch... :o

ViRuS2k

ViRuS2k

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Coming home from a hard nights backshift, with a work mate and almost died.. was going about 55mph though not sure hitting this would do much damage at those speeds.

i still can not beleave how i managed to survive not hitting them.... had to swerve to the center of the road and back to the left :o

Video reuploaded with end of sound cut... hope this is ok.

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Digital X said:
Christ.. that was close. At that speed hitting a horse I'd imagine would do a fair bit to a car.
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Yeah they where full grown aswell, they got out of the farm gate it was unlatched and open we managed to get the horses back into the farm and relatch the gate, we called the police just incase there was more loose on the road and went home, we where tired going home but we where wide awake when we got home ...
 
Doing a lot of evening/night shifts this is one of my worries driving home through rural parts at night.

Definitely need to slow down and go past more cautiously though - so many times I've had spooked animals double back into my path. Looked like there was a hazard sign for horses as well.

(This is why a good idea to slow down for animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXFDKXhRr90 )
 
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Glad you’re ok, and the horses. Some country folk seem to take a somewhat cavalier approach to keeping their animals safely contained
 
ViRuS2k said:
Yeah they where full grown aswell, they got out of the farm gate it was unlatched and open we managed to get the horses back into the farm and relatch the gate, we called the police just incase there was more loose on the road and went home, we where tired going home but we where wide awake when we got home ...
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Another way to look at this isn't that you survived or you handled yourself well in the moment, it's you could have saved someone else's life.


It would have been a lot easier to just drive on after that rather than risk moving the horses back.

Top man
 
Damn that was pretty damn close indeed! Well handled.

It was like a horse chicane.
 
Blimey ! Had you already moved into the middle of the road because of the all potholes on the side or had you seen something on the approach to the bend ?
 
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Rroff said:
Doing a lot of evening/night shifts this is one of my worries driving home through rural parts at night.

Definitely need to slow down and go past more cautiously though - so many times I've had spooked animals double back into my path. Looked like there was a hazard sign for horses as well.

(This is why a good idea to slow down for animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXFDKXhRr90 )
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Fit the best bulbs/lights you can afford. I have the Philips Xtreme-Vision bulbs in my Duster and not only did it double the amount of light thrown, they pick out any reflections from road signs and animal’s eye from over a hundred meters away.
 
robfosters said:
Glad you’re ok, and the horses. Some country folk seem to take a somewhat cavalier approach to keeping their animals safely contained
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Aye it's unheard of for horses to jump things? :p

peterwalkley said:
Blimey ! Had you already moved into the middle of the road because of the all potholes on the side or had you seen something on the approach to the bend ?
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He said he was doing 55mph in the op and approaching an s-bend, clearly trying to the apex to maintain maximum speed out of the corner ;)
 
I had a squirrel jump out on me last week, audi's pre-sense kicked in just as I was starting to brake.

I suspect in a modern car the safety systems would have also had you doing an emergency brake.
 
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