First time road kill

Pigeon on a country road - a thud on the bonnet, which left a perfect imprint of every feather in a chalky dust residue. Bird bounced off and presumably snuffed it in a field as there was no sign of the thing anywhere.

Another pigeon visiting a campsite, exploded under back wheel leaving a huge cloud of feathers in wake.

A mate claims to have hit a cat at night driving through a small village. He felt the thud, got out and found the cat in a nearby garden and decided to stove in its head with a golf club to put it out of its misery.

He then got a visit from the plod, investigating a complaint where some pensioner had seen him wander into her garden and beat her elderly cat to death without provocation. After giving his side of the story, he was let off with a warning.

The mangled partial remains of a cat were later discovered fouled in his OSF spring whilst investigating an unusual smell. I suspect he's talking bobbins but it amused me at the time :p
 
I've been lucky so far and haven't hit anything.

Parents on other hand, when I was younger we used to travel back and forth from scotland to wales via A9 and during summer theres hundreds of rabbits, we used to hit quite a few in one trip!

Mums RX7 was the worst for it, just the right height to decapitate the lil buggers and then watch heads bouncing off bonnet :(

Oddly enough, no real damage apart from cracked number plates.

Had a blackbird hit another car once though that managed to break radiator grill and dislodge a headlamp!
 
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My mate hit a massive deer, a few years back in what was a old D reg Fiesta. Luckily I was in the back, it just happened to jump out when he was doing about 40 so didnt have a chance to react which was probably good.

Deer was totally ****ed
Car was a total write off
However one of my mates whos a game keeper went back, picked it up, skinned it and chopped it in to dinner size bits and ate it!
 
I hit a fawn a fortnight ago on the a27, it basically exploded leaving a nice little "scar" on my car:

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Worst experience I've had is when I was driving past a group of children walking to school with their parents down a country lane when I saw something jump from the side of the road, it went straight under the wheels and made quite a loud thump. I thought it was a rock so I stopped to check for damage but it turned out to be a rabbit and it was still alive although very badly injured and squirming on the floor, looking at it's eyes I could tell it also had myxomatosis.

I then looked at the group of kids and they were all staring at me in dismay, I knew I'd have to put the rabbit out of it's misery and I think the parents realised this too so they ushered the kids away while I killed the rabbit with the biggest stick I could find, only took one blow to the neck.
 
Have hit so far a rabbit, pigeon, and a fox.

Pigeon was in the Astra, flew out from the side of the road and somehow aimed itself between the archway and the wheel, felt the *thud* as the car ran it over :( - queue a big bloom of feathers behind me.

Rabbit, was in Norfolk in the Saaaaaab driving to a beach very early in the morning and there were bunnys everywhere, was going very slowly trying to avoid and when the road cleared I sped up a little and one pounced out from the side, I swerved but clipped it, went under the car and I looked in the rearview mirror and he scampered off! yay! :)

Fox was in the MG, coming home late one night and he was outside a closed shop and was I drove past decided to leg it infront of my car, I caught his head and heard that *thud* again :(
 
A copule of years back, my old man was in the Royal Liverpool undergoing a trial procedure to combat a cancerous tumour that had survived various attempts at chemo, laser surgery etc. It was high-risk and he was in theatre for 14 hours. That evening we get the call from the hospital that he's out of surgery and in recovery, and can my mum go in to see him. So, off she goes and I somewhat relax and breathe a little sigh of relief, well the surgeon had said it had gone well over the phone.

Skip to two hours later, my mum walks in and I rush into the hall to ask after the old man. She's pale and in floods of tears; Instantly I turn cold and my head's litterally spinning, my legs feel like they're about to fold under me and I'm filled with this overwhelming sense of dread of what she's about to say. What's happened to dad? Something's gone wrong and he's gone, he's reacted badly to the anaesthetic, they've nicked an artery and he's bled out etc....After what seems to be an eternity I manage to croke out the stammering words "W-w-w-what happened?......." and between sobs my mum cries out "I hit a rabbit!". Astounded I ask "What about dad?", rather non-chalantly she replies "Oh yeah, he's fine", then continues to regale me with this tale of a bloody rabbit hopping out into the road in front of her on her way home from the hospital while I try and recover from what has to have been the biggest non-shock of my life.
 
I can still see the little terrier (my only road kill) as he appeared in my headlights before promptly getting hit by the front bumper. Little thing even had his tongue lolling out the side of his mouth as he has obviously running. I was in the right hand lane of a dual carriage way.

Moral of the story is don't let your dog off the lead by a main road in the dark no matter how well trained you think it is (stupid owner :mad:)

And also remember (pedestrian this time) a pigeon that went under the wheel of a bus. From the neck down was crushed but for a few seconds it was still sentient. It even blinked which is another moment that will always stay with me.
 
Hit a rabbit at about 30ish on a country road with my mother in the car. I went back to see if it was dead as I didn't want it left in pain and told my mother I must have missed it as it wasn't there to ease her mind!
 
Phate said:
Fox was in the MG
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I doubt that.



On topic:
There's a mallard which has taken to sitting in the middle of the driveway at the top of the hill, takes a lot to get it to move when in the car. I hope it hasn't decided to nest there. They often use a bush nearby, which is fine, and it's nice to see the occasional parade of duckings following mum to the lake for their 1st swim. But if that stupid thing lays its eggs on the driveway I'm only going to cream them all in one go.
 
Had to brake hard from 60 to avoid a duck just standing in the middle of the road staring at me earlier. Then swerved past a pheasant when I came back the other way :(
 
I had to brake from :o to avoid a raven on the motorway today, I had that Evo v pigeon video playing in my mind..
 
My mate had a random cow run into his 1982 Polo when he parked up in a field years ago.

The drivers side door had a maahosive cow dent and wouldn't close/open properly afterwards. We used to have to 'dukes of hazzard' it through the window afterwards. Not quite a road kill though and the cow didn't even flinch.
 
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