Higher springs saved a life last night

[Smikey]

Driving along, didn't see a possum right infront of me, about 10 metres on the left hand wheel side! Noway i could have swerved around it, so i swerved left to pass it through the middle of the car and then back to the right to pass it through the rear wheels (i didn't cross into the opposite lane, just a little into the parking lane down the road).

I was waiting for the bump but luckily it never came and looking into the rear vision mirror, saw it's furry little self continue to plod along like it didn't know what happened... anyways that freaked me out! and i was getting spooked by roadkill that was already around.

Made me think that if my car didn't raise up an inch it could have been different...

also i know i'm not meant to swerve but it wasn't very fast and not too far out of the lane

[Dogo]

i doubt a snake would even pass under my car ;)

That possum must have been freaked by an experience like that !

[derb]

bah, plenty of possums about. they usually claim your front bar though. i took a mate up clear mountain in is Ford XY GT replica and he managed to nail one that ripped off his original GT front air dam. he said he could easily get a replica dam off ebay but he was rightly pissed at losing an original part.

[hks_kansei]

I have hit:

Falcon into Pigeon
Navara into Parrot
Falcon into Rabbit
Falcon into snake
Mondeo into Sparrows
Mondeo into my leg
626 into many birds

[Smikey]

Mondeo into your leg! that sounds more difficult than any of the others!

[Rupewrecht]

I have
Sparrow into grille
Blackbird into drivers window...while the door was open!

[marcs_sp20]

I have hit:

Wallabie into Gemini
6ft long brown snake into Gemini
Lorrikeet into SP20 guard

[DavoAust]

magpie into both wheel arches

[guntersmells]

I was about 10cm from hitting a fox on saturday night lol. Doing about 140 down a dark country road and it darted out right in front of me and made a beeline right for my front right wheel before it darted back around and scurried off the road :P

[mike_d87]

There is an old lady who brings her car into work who always has a parrot or something stuck under the radiator. We get them out but she keeps coming back with more!!

[Smikey]

i've seen three foxes around sydney! i didn't even know they were around, one was roadkill.

Yesterday my sister was driving a BJ around and a australian mynah zipped infront of her and hit the front of the car! feathers went flying and she was freaked out, but drove 10 minutes home. She didn't see the body behind her so she figured maybe there would be a smear across the roofline or something. When she got out of the car towards the front of the car she saw a head poking out! it was stuck between the front bar and the grill of the foglight hole. Thing is that it wasn't dead. So she and dad were trying to get it out but it was flapping about and then the local birds all gathered around since this one was from a few kilometres away. Eventually they freed it and it gave the car a dirty long look as it hopped away, it had to deal with the other birds around after that. Would have been quite a sight to see a live bird flapping about in the grill for the drive home.

[hks_kansei]

Mondeo into your leg! that sounds more difficult than any of the others!

umm..... yeah.

let me put it this way, when you do a trackday, chock the wheels.

and if the car starts rolling away, dont try to stop it.

[Ice88]

umm..... yeah.

let me put it this way, when you do a trackday, chock the wheels.

and if the car starts rolling away, dont try to stop it.

rofl im guessing people failed to catch that on camera? :(

[hks_kansei]

yeah, no photos or videos.

my only reminder is the big hole in my car's rear bumper.

[Smikey]

wow your leg must be strong! ;)

at least your cars got low rolling resistance, still better than cooking the brakes... i think...

[hks_kansei]

nah, leg isnt strong, just that Mondeo bumpers are made of absolute crap plastic. It doesnt take much at all the break them.

slightly better than warping the discs, while I get the bumper replaced I'm going to get a few other things re-sprayed too. they arent big enough to have bothered on their own, but while the shop has the gun out I may as well get them done.

[mussing]

I hit a little echidna on the pacific highway on the way to Stockton. My girlfriend screamed so loud, and I watched it roll away in the rear view mirror. Poor thing.

Oh and there was some roadkill this afternoon where Concord Road becomes Church Street, on the hill toward Victoria Road. Probably a fox or a possum.

Lol also I got hit by a woman in a Falcon while riding my bicycle near Rhodes shopping centre. She took me out while I was crossing the road. Luckily though the only thing I got from that was a nasty bruise, a scar, and the day off work.

[Batty]

I hit a blackbird beak on with my shoulder doing about 100MPH / 169kmph on my 500 kawasaki, bloody hurt that did and massive bruising, feathers everywhere, guess the poor birdie didn't make it.

[Sleepy Gonzalez]

177,000km BJ with lots of night highway driving has resulted in:
Lots of Cane Toads into all wheels,
Flying Fox into windscreen,
live Wallaby (just the tail) into front bar,
already dead Wallaby into now very slightly bent GT spec lower tie brace,
some unidentified small brown furry animals into wheels,
a snake into wheels,
a few small birds into front end.

It seems that the distance required to identify and respond in time to stop before hitting a small, low contrast hazard on a wet road at 100kph at night is just slightly greater than the distance lit by the headlights on low beam!

Also Navara into human! He ran straight across the road in front of me to get in he back of a waiting truck. I turned to pass behind him, then he turned and ran back! I coundn't stop in time and he turned his back so that the fortunately flat front of the ute hit his backside and the palms of his hands. He did a beautiful forward roll into a squatting position, completely uninjured. Turned out he was blind in his left eye and didn't see me coming, then turned back when people warned him. That was in Papua New Guinea. Was pretty scary, with the potential for irrational payback demands etc.

Numerous light aircraft into many small birds.

Bicycle into Alsation, resulting in bent frame and forks.