First time road kill

Last week a cat jumped over a wall into a car coming the other way. Head went right under the wheel. I stopped but it was wriggling and fitting all over place. I just moved her out the road and held the poor girl still and talked to her. Blood was pouring out its ear, there was nothing I could do.

The woman who hit it said I will have a place in heaven for doing that. Poor thing, but the moman had no time to react. Not a nice sight but didn't really bother me. Easier than attending a dead human being which I have done a couple of times.
 
I flattened a magpie three weeks ago. Was happily driving along when I spotted two in the road after a sharp bend. Couldn't swerve out of the way because of an oncoming car so both went under the bonnet and only 1 and a half were visible in my rear view.

Couldn't work out if it was good luck for seeing two or bad luck for killing one until my bed broke two days later shortly followed by the timing chain on my car.
 
Ive yet to make a clean kill, but was following a transit on the way to swindon 2 years ago and it hit a big pidgeon, feathers flew up everywhere!
 
Pheasants are the worse, littered up here. They just causally cross the road too, had to stop a couple of times! :(
 
Is it wrong that I'm laughing at some (not all) of the posts in this thread :o

Never ran anything over.. Except I think a small bird while in the MX5. I saw it before I hit it, then didn't see it. I even stopped to look! I do keep finding bits of feather stuck in various parts of the undertray/underside of the car, though.. Must have gone through the rad grill hole in the bumper!
 
Done quite a few from pigeons to cats, worse was a young rabbit though, I just pulling away and turning right, it hopped right under my front wheel and made a little pop as i rat it over :s
 
Bombing down a country lane in my late mini 1.3 with the number plate mounted rather low on the bonnet and a rabbit completly wiped it out and itself out! was quite funny though at the time, and didnt realise id lost my number plate for another 15 miles until i got home :D
 
I had a pretty nasty one quite a few years ago. Disclaimer: I drive more sensibly these days.

Was hooning on a backroad and hit a good sized hare at about 100. It went through the bumper and basically disintigrated around and through my radiator. The car was pouring water down the road after that and had to get the car recovered back to my house. I was late so left it until the next day to have a look in the light.

Basically it was a right mess under the bonnet, blood spattered onto the underside of the white bonnet and chunks all around the engine bay. It stank.

I had the joyous job of replacing the radiator and it was a disgusting job. :/
 
Out with my mate in his Chav-tastic (lowered etc) 216GTI type old rover thing about 10 years ago and we were behind an Artic which hit a sheep. All we see is the lorry slam it's brakes on, my mate shouting "whats that *** doing" followed by seeing what was left of the sheep fly out from the rear wheels of the lorry and smash straight into my mates bonnet - Not nice! Even the lorry driver was shocked at the state of the car!
 
A squirrel, it ran across the road and made it safe until it thought a good idea would be to run back across.

All I had time for was a "oh ya bas..."
 
I hit a baby deer the other day, not sure whether I killed it or not. It got up and ran off so maybe its ok. I only hit it at about 20mph, cracked my bumper a bit though. I wouldn't really worry about it, just the way it goes.
 
Pigeon at around 5am at around 60-70mph, smashed the front grill, couple of feathers in the engine bay and the rest of the body rolled up the windscreen and over the roof :/

Why do they always take off and perfectly time themselves to be at bonnet/windscreen height :(
 
Driving to work on the A141 one morning traffic was quite heavy but a steady 55/60. Quick flash of a black thing(looked like a cat allbeit, large, maybe a badger) outstreached in full leap/sprint mode at the passenger side front bumper area then. BAH!! BAM!!

It went under both wheels instantly, looking behind i saw it flailing in the road appeared to be stuck in one spot ..middle flattened.. couldn't stop to see due to obvious traffic.

This was in a 95 Punto - no Damage, i have no idea how. Suicidal Badger i believe...thoughts on what else it could have been?
 
I've had a couple of notable near misses. One was when I was turning off the M180 a few years back doing 70, I see a partridge cross the road, then as I get closer its little chicks make a run for it after the adult. By that time and given the road bend was such that it simply wasn't safe to jam the brakes on or swerve, I just had to go and hope for the best. Went over the lot still doing 70, checked in the mirror and they'd all survived. Probably bragging to their mates as I type.

Next was the girlfriends cat, pulling onto her driveway after a day out her cat was sunbathing on the drive and I simply didn't see it, though she had. I drive right over the cat and it manages to spook and run out via the side of the car in the gap between the front and back wheels whilst I'm still moving. Girlfriend went absolutely white.

Also, it always puzzle me when you splat a bee or something on your windscreen, there is nearly always very little "dark matter" left behind, its usually just clear liquid. Odd that.
 
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I flattened a hedgehog once! It was horrific! :o

Oh and a few days ago there was this squashed fox in the middle of the duel carriageway, guts hanging out and everything. Eww.
 
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