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So have Horses, Donkey's and Camels and you won't avoid these by simply violently swerving either.Quote:
he problem with moose is they have a high centre of gravity and spindly legs.
Driving to conditions which usually involves slowing down/paying attention, a good set of brakes and frontal protection is by FAR a better method of surviving or even avoiding a strike with one of these animals [thumbsupbig]
Swerving at ANY speed is a recipe for Disaster, Especially if you are towing anything.
I once met a truck driver in Alice Springs who described when he hit a camel which came through the passenger side of the windscreen. Apparently camel feet patter furiously when horizontal. He bailed out the driver's door.
I Bet that woke him up from the little nap he was having [bigwhistle]Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
Yeah I bet. Apparently the camel was a big male standing on the Sturt Highway north of Alice at night, so tall it came over the top of the cattle grid bullbar. It all happened really fast. A cab full of camel guts is not a pretty sight, he said.
Pretty sure there's an Aussie movie where an American is riding in the cab of a road train. Female driver. They keep bumping things, Kangaroos. The Yank is shocked. The driver just ignores them. I think the line goes, "Hit a cow once. (long pause). Fn thing exploded. (long pause). Mess everywhere."Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
I laughed.
If you are lucky enough when driving in North America you might get the chance to hit a skunk. Any sort of front end protection , unless a plow is useless. Myself , if the road was clear and slowing not possible , i would consider swerving around the stink monster !
only takes a wombat to roll a car.
Friend rolled a wombat under his old passat once. Was like going over a speedbump, except it rolled under the car as we went over it, all the way. Only minor damage to passat lower radiator bracket. Wombat wasnt happy. Poor chap.
An old customer hit a camel in a Barina van at Wallacia, just west of Sydney.
Luckily, (unluckily for the camel) as he took its legs out it rolled over the top of him and crushed the van right behind his head.
This was back when Toyota had just launched the Rav 4 and was using the cartoon camel to advertise it.
The poor Bugger got models and cartoons for weeks in his butcher shop