Thread: Roos on the road at night.

Think I would dull the speed down a bit in a situation like this or get behind a roadtrain and use him as a roobar .

In my opinion its not real smart in a car the way you were swerving all over the road to avoid a strike.
Dont get me wrong beause i love driving at night and have traveled all over Australia at night but in a very big truck with a huge bullbar and never swerved once .
But if your life or someone else was at risk sure but realy was it realy that important or urgent to drive at that time of night .
Your extremly lucky you and your car survived

Originally Posted by Fatso

Think I would dull the speed down a bit in a situation like this or get behind a roadtrain and use him as a roobar .

That's actually a really bad place to be because you dont get the chance to see them coming from the sides. A heap run into the side of road trains becuase they are blinded by the driving lights and run in later.

Other than that, you don't get time to avoid the carcases rolling out the back.

Happy Days

Originally Posted by rangieman

In my opinion its not real smart in a car the way you were swerving all over the road to avoid a strike.
Dont get me wrong beause i love driving at night and have traveled all over Australia at night but in a very big truck with a huge bullbar and never swerved once .
But if your life or someone else was at risk sure but realy was it realy that important or urgent to drive at that time of night .
Your extremly lucky you and your car survived

I didn't really turn that hard at all. If you look at my bonnet you won't see any body roll. You might be deceved by my cornering head lights. They turn with the steering wheel. They have there own control module with steering and speed input, they do a good job of putting light where you need it.

And I don't know about it being luck that me and my car survived. I've been doing this for years. I don't know how long I could rely on luck for.

I have been known to hit plenty of roos with a decent bull bar and in situations where, like in my video, there were 3 across the road. In my car I slowed and drove around them, with a bull bar I'd just have held my speed and picked one. That might shock some city people but to put it in a bit of perspective, a few years ago, Cobar had a comercial roo cull quota of a million roos, they were lucky to fill 100,000 of those. I remember reading that in a news paper in response to some person from the UK who had their story posted on the front page of a Syndey news paper that roos were at risk of becoming extinct in Australia.

I was a Telstra subcontractor for over 9 years and did over 110,000km per year and most at night. Prior to that I was a technician traveling all over central NSW. In all that time, I have only hit 2 roos by accident. One jumped into the side of my 1979 Corrola after I'd been out dirt bike riding with a couple of mates near Bathurst (I could argue he hit me, I didn't hit him but the end result was still my car damaged). The other was on the River rd on the way up to Wilcannia from Menindee. 3 roos jumped across the rd while I was driving through a cutting. To start with, it was the middle of the day so I wasn't as prepared as I am at night and as it was a cutting, I had no where to go so I just picked the smallest. I recon 2 in over a million km is pretty good odds. I don't think I can put that down to luck.

Happy Days.

Originally Posted by joel0407

I didn't really turn that hard at all. If you look at my bonnet you won't see any body roll. You might be deceved by my cornering head lights. They turn with the steering wheel. They have there own control module with steering and speed input, they do a good job of putting light where you need it.

And I don't know about it being luck that me and my car survived. I've been doing this for years. I don't know how long I could rely on luck for.

I have been known to hit plenty of roos with a decent bull bar and in situations where, like in my video, there were 3 across the road. In my car I slowed and drove around them, with a bull bar I'd just have held my speed and picked one. That might shock some city people but to put it in a bit of perspective, a few years ago, Cobar had a comercial roo cull quota of a million roos, they were lucky to fill 100,000 of those. I remember reading that in a news paper in response to some person from the UK who had their story posted on the front page of a Syndey news paper that roos were at risk of becoming extinct in Australia.

I was a Telstra subcontractor for over 9 years and did over 110,000km per year and most at night. Prior to that I was a technician traveling all over central NSW. In all that time, I have only hit 2 roos by accident. One jumped into the side of my 1979 Corrola after I'd been out dirt bike riding with a couple of mates near Bathurst (I could argue he hit me, I didn't hit him but the end result was still my car damaged). The other was on the River rd on the way up to Wilcannia from Menindee. 3 roos jumped across the rd while I was driving through a cutting. To start with, it was the middle of the day so I wasn't as prepared as I am at night and as it was a cutting, I had no where to go so I just picked the smallest. I recon 2 in over a million km is pretty good odds. I don't think I can put that down to luck.

Happy Days.

If thats how you justifie you experience good luck . Im not going to argue as you seem to be convinced what you did is ok so be it . Im not convinced but as i said that is my opinion

Originally Posted by BMKal

Was probably worse than that between Madura and Mundrabilla coming across the paddock last week.

Especially after a few drops of rain and some water puddles on the black top - they were all coming out for a drink. There's some bloody big ones out there too.

I can remember coming out of Mundrabilla one night in a road train heading east put my lights up and for the entire distance I could see there was at least one roo every metre on both sides of the road .
and joel be aware you also get wombats going between pt augusta and the wa border they will do you more harm than any roo especially after rain !

and then just for fun in wa there is always the chance of a camel

Originally Posted by Outback 1

and then just for fun in wa there is always the chance of a camel

grey cow is worse,
they blend in with the road