First time road kill

[probedb]

I've hit a pheasant doing about 60mph and that's it. Ran out about 5m in front of me, had to clear it out of the oil cooler duct where it got stuck.

 

[soundb0y]

We have a couple of ponds in the garden so there are always lots of ducklings about.

Anyway mother duck was leading about 8 of them down the drive one day just as my dad roared round the corner in the discovery instantly pancaking the lot.

The dog seemed to enjoy the aftermath.

 

[-westy-]

I grew up in Dorset, there's wildlife everywhere. First roadkill was a rabbit under a tractor wheel when I was 15

Most spectacular was a fox at about 90mph. Not pretty.

 

[chumpit]

Got my first one today, had to drive all around the playing field but finally got the bugger. never new electric wheel chairs could be so agile.


nah my first road kill was a cow.
Well really it was road kill as animal kill car.
I was learning to drive in the brecon beacons and my dad decided to go on the mountain roads at dark, so was progressing nicely came over a ridge into a blind dip where a cow decided to sleep. destroyed the front bumper bonnet, wings and decimated the radiator....
Cow just got up and wandered off...

 

[Steedie]

nah my first road kill was a cow.
Well really it was road kill as animal kill car.
I was learning to drive in the brecon beacons and my dad decided to go on the mountain roads at dark, so was progressing nicely came over a ridge into a blind dip where a cow decided to sleep. destroyed the front bumper bonnet, wings and decimated the radiator....
Cow just got up and wandered off...

Cow 1 - 0 Car

That would have been surreal to watch the cow just get up and walk off though

 

[Enfield]

Hit three deer. The first died outright, the other two got away (separate occasions - I didn't go off-roading lol). Nearly been four and almost hit a big dulux type dog. Nearly hit cats, don't care to remember how many and have killed a few rabbits which is always sad.

Ohh, don't forget the pheasants! Three from memory, two very comical ones.

 

[Rids]

Reading this thread terrifys me for the safety of my cat. One of them has absolutely no fear at all of cars, and nothing I've tried seems to work in educating him that cars = bad, and some absolute morons will go out of there way to hurt him. We live in a house with a communal carpark at the back, said cat will regularly follow us to the carpark to see us off in the morning, and is always there waiting for us when we get back of a night. We assume he does something constructive during the 10 or so hours we are not there, but its hard to tell. Unfotunately, his way of seeing us off is to sit in the carpark and watch us pull away, sometimes he sits on the path like a sensible moggy, others he sits in the middle of the carpark and will not move if you honk the horn, rev the engine, anything, and I have to get out the car to get him to move. When we come home... sometimes he is sitting on the ramp into the carpark, sometimes he comes bounding accross the road from doing whatever he was doing... I know its literally only a matter of time before he gets himself killed

Back on topic, I actually killed a peacock once. My parents live in a small village, and the guy in the house accross the street has something to do with Colchester Zoo, I don't exactlly know what, but I assume he is quite senior considering he takes peacocks home (or used to). I'd seen this peacocks before when I was around my mums, they would hop onto her roof, stroll around the garden, generally mince about. Anyway, one night I'm driving to my mums, only doing about 35-40, and suddenly out of nowhere peacock leaps over a bush and BAM, massive impact, I swear it felt like hitting a tree or something. Felt it go under the wheels, got out to have a look, it was screwed. This was perhaps 400 yards from my mums place, knew straight away that it was the guys peacock, Mrs was in absolute floods of tears, I was completely aghast, apparently I'd turned a pale white, to this day I cant remember how it happened but soon I was at the guys door, dead peacock in arms going 'i'm so sorry, im so sorry' over and over again.

 

[supermodder]

I enjoy the thrill of the chase, i like to guide rabbits down the middle of the road and try to run them down. theres hundreds down my road, i dont feel bad the numbers need bringing down anyway. I dont swerve or brake to avoid any animals unless they are big enough to cause damage, i stop at cats anything bigger would be bad. Also i go for multi kills on pigeons if possible, like catching them unawares at about 60mph down a country lane! Hit a sparrow on my bike once and it winded me but that was unintentional.

 

[Scythe]

My mate passed his test the other day, and we ran over a cat at 40mph that night. Literally just ran into the wheels, couldnt believe it. Couldnt brake due to a car tailgating, a damn taxi..