New BULL BAR laws in SA - vehicles after 1-7-13

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

Where is the evidence of roos being pushed up onto people's bonnets?

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go try it and let me know.

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Originally Posted by Eevo

im sure most of us have hit more roo's than pedestrians, and when we do hit a roo, do we want to going under the car, or through the windscreen?

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Here's my count.

Pedestrians One
Skippy three, with a few near misses.

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

Any evidence for that? The CofG of a roo is much lower than a human.

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the CofG of a human walking across a road doesnt move up and down significantly either....

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Originally Posted by Eevo

go try it and let me know.

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I have - as have thousands of others. My bonnet is fine, the roo is not.

Isuzurover, depends on the size of the roo, I'm up to about 8 now and one deer, never had one come up in the Defender but had one come up on to the bonnet in the falcon. I've seen a few nasty cases of big boomers coming up onto the bonnet and then kicking straight through the windscreen with an ARB type bar - mainly on patrols and one on a landcruiser. Neighbour across the road has the cow catcher type bar which is fantastic with roos, no damage to the vehicle and no danger to occupants.

Digger, I wonder how this is going to affect utes that are used for proper station purposes, ie the reason they have a flat bullbar is for knocking over mickeybulls, etc. Did have a bit of a laugh at the images when they were talking about rounded surfaces, slopes etc. Wonder if they've looked at a defender lately.

As usual it looks like those of us with a genuine need will have to come up with another way to do what we need to do.

Some years ago just south of Armadale WA on Albany Hwy there was a driver killed when a roo got hit by a car travelling in the opposite direction which then went across the road and over the bonnet of his car and through the screen. Nothing he could have done to avoid it and a pure accident with no one to blame.
What bugs me is our weak as water pollies just love travelling overseas then bringing back crap rules from the EU or other crap organisations like the UN etc and applying them to us.
Europeans generally don't have the animal problems we have even close to cities.
Our bar design is generally good but just recently I saw a new Ford Fsomething with a new 5 bar thing on the front which leant well forward of the vehicle and would have weighed a bloody ton and taken a crane to lift it. Obviously a specially made job and how this can be allowed today is beyond me but I bet our traffic cops never see it and give him a pull.
And as others have said, how about some of the other road users exercising some part of what's between their ears for a change?
AlanH.