what animals have you accidentally hit while driving?

i've hit an armadillo, a possum, and a deer.

I've seen people swerve in order to hit an animal. Do they get some kind of kick out of it? And if so, what kind of person would?

I once hit a bird by accident. I was going 40 and it flew directly in front of the car. I couldn't stop fast enough to avoid it. I felt awfull.

Khash.

I am a viscious evil fuck. But I've learned to control it.

it materialized out of the fog on one of those weird rainy January nights. But I only winged him. Last I saw of the deer it was bounding off on the other side of the road. :hi:

more rabbits than I could possibly account for, growing up in a rural area.

Never hit a deer, thank goodness.

:hi:

he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog... Well, replace the word "dog" with "son," and the word "kinda" with "repeatedly."

you can come to my office so i can depose you.

The birds made me sad.

The bunny made me very, very sad. :(


Also... does anyone else have wildlife just TRYING to make you hit them?

These animals out in the country want me to have a heart attack, I swear.

i work for a chainsaw store.

moved about 2 months ago.

can't do winter anymore.

he's a fanatic.

probably still wearing bears stuff.

At least you'd make me laugh before I died!

'cept the one bunny... and those few birds. :(


Hey you're in TX... what's the ballpark ratio of live vs. dead armadillos you've seen? In my life I've seen 3 live ones, I think. Two recently... but dozens squished. That's just not right.

when i lived in austin, i saw plenty around there.

I've seen one in a backyard at a cabin near Lake Whitney... and one in town where I live (?!)... and one out in the country.

I swear the fuckers around here TRY to hit them. x(

I got one of those. I did my best to avoid him--and about a dozen of his kin--when he just threw himself under my tire.

If a chipmunk wants to commit suicide, can't he find some way that doesn't traumatize a poor driver? Like tiny rodent Russian roulette or something?

and run into the back end of my pickup! I tell you, these kamikazee deer are dangerous!
:rofl:

I hit a dead and very stiff Rottweiler.


And... frogs, thousands of them, on a rainy night in Northern Michigan. They had hopped up onto the road to escape drowning in their flooded burrows.

i was driving to del rio at 3 in the morning on US 90 and there had to be about 3 gazillion deer feeding on either side of the road.

all you could see was little glimmering eyes.

had to get behind a truck the whole way.

i was so afraid one would jump into the road.

:puke:

I'm lucky to have not hit a deer. They always seem to be happily grazing on the side of the road when I drive by.

When we were taking care of my mother, her nurses' aide called in one day to say she'd be late because traffic was stopped. There was a turtle crossing the road. She had just come here from Russia and she said "Only in this country do people stop for a turtle to cross the road"!

crab & trout (don't ask), bat, and all manner of insects, including a lightning bug swarm that left my windshield glowing one night.

:cry:

I have hit a bird. That is it.

This is tough for me because my sweet Hutch got hit by a truck a couple of months ago. My husband was letting him ride with him to go to Starbucks and as my husband was putting him in the truck, he jumped back out and took off across the street. A truck came flying by and nailed him. Right in front of my husband. The guy didn't even have the courtesy to stop. I know it wasn't his fault, but human decency says to stop and check on the situation. Asshole. I miss my Hutch so much. I had him for 6 years. He was such a happy dog.

Right in front of me. 20 years ago and I still can see it. :cry:

Edited 30 years to 20 years ago

my dad made me help him move the carcass and dig the hole. i cried the whole time. then he called me a sissy for crying.

He dug a hole on the side of the house and buried him. I hated that I couldn't look, but I was hysterical. I love my babies. I am pregnant and emotions are high anyway. It was a terrible day. I still cry sometimes when I get to thinking about him.

:hug:

:hug:

You two are describing my worst nightmare. :( :hug:

hurt! I am so sorry! :hug:

take him with him because it would make his day because he loved to ride. It made his day all right.

Thanks.

I almost hit a group of them but was able to slow down just in time for them to make it around the front of the car. Except for one - I was just about stopped and she kind of skidded under the side of the car, scrambled out and ran off.

I was unfortunate enough to hit a dog once a long time ago.

Other than that, I can say that it's not a good idea to drive through a locust swarm.

Edit: I almost hit a moose once, missed by inches. I knew quite a few people in Alaska that had hit moose, imagine a cow on stilts crashing through the windshield.

I was driving downstate to my folks one evening. The deer suddenly ran in front of me. I literally didn't see it before I saw those eyes in my windshield.

The car was pretty much totalled after that accident. Fortunately, I had no injuries. But I felt horrible about hitting that deer.

it's about an 80 mile drive.

but my worst fear is to hit a deer. i drive petrified watching treelines and ditches hoping one doesn't jump in the road.

i've hit one before and had glass all in my face, so it wasn't pleasant.

I was driving highway 105 at about 2 in the morning, so maybe I was just asking to be hit by a deer!

I don't mean to. When they're mating in the late Spring/early Summer, they're all over the roads. There's no way to avoid them. :(

Actually, the deer hit me. I noticed quite a ways back that I was going to be driving into a gathering of deer and had managed to slow down to about 25 mph by the time I was coming up to them. I thought I was safe, when this one that had almost crossed the highway turned back and galloped into my car. I'm pretty sure she got away fine, but she did $2,000 worth of damage anyway!

It was a large raccoon or a small pig. I'm still not sure.

them's good eatin'

It may have been a chupacabra for all I know.

we at lunch at olive garden

I don't have any kids, but I can probably find one or two somewhere....

Though, I really wouldn't call it a pure accident.

I never thought I would but my attention was focused on an oncoming driver who I knew had the sun in his eyes and this little dog just ran out out in front of me. I straddled him and hit him with my differential. I tracked down his owner and he got him to the vet and he survived.

I hit a deer once but was able to knock off enough of my speed that we both survived.

Almost hit a Great Horned Owl once at night. That scared the shit out of me.

I swear the dog, big yellow lab maybe, ran out into the road and hit the side of my car.

Surprised the hell out of me. By the time I turned the car around, I didn't see him in the road or in either ditch, so I assume he walked it off.

Not really. I just wanted to say "peacock".

I did see one get hit on I-94 in IL near Lamb's Farm though.

huh, huh huh, huh huh huh.

my favorite beavis and butthead quip.

except for this one:

Butthead: Beavis, you're a dumb sonofabitch and your mom's a whore

Beavis: uh, no she isn't. she's a slut, she does it for free.

huh huh huh huh

<<sigh>>

"These guys are cool - for a bunch of mimes."
Beavis & Butthead (about Kiss)

"Uhh, I have an injury."
"You do?"
"Yeah, I have this great big crack in my butt."
Beavis & Butthead

"Huh huh, huh huh huh
huh huh mmm, uh huh huh huh
huh huh, huh huh huh.
Beavis' Haiku for class

"I hate when mimes get in your face and don't say anything."
"Yeah, I usually kick them in the 'nads and they say something.
Usually it's ooh...unh...aahh."
Beavis & Butthead

*THUMP* *explosion of feathers*

This was on the highway, so I was doing at least 65.

while making a turn at a t-intersection in a residential area one dark night. Streets were unlit and I was going less than 25 mph. Hit a car parked in front of a no parking from corner sign. Totalled both cars. Spent well over two hours having glass picked out of my face. More slivers worked their way out over the year or so following the accident. Saw a plastic surgeon for a year. Had chronic back pain for a few years. Have some minor but permanent nerve damage in one knee. Still have dental problems because I cracked and chipped some teeth. Happened over 20 years ago. I have worn a seat belt ever since. And the last time a cat ran into the street in front of me I ran over it rather than try to avoid it.

In heavy fog, right before sunrise...totally wiped out the front-end of the truck...we're talkin' totalled here...

I couldn't believe there was a bear on the road, and on the interstate, at that.

Totaled my car.

Opossum, a squirrel.

And a dog. :( :cry:

the highway and there were frogs everywhere. Don't know how many of those poor little dears we killed. It was unavoidable. I like frogs. I felt so grossed out the whole way home.

It was trying to get across I-70. And it was in the middle of the day, too, when you seldom see them. Go figure.

BUT the year the cicadas appeared in DC...
:scared:

I'm almost phobic about hitting deer. They're thick around here, and I'm sure I'll hit one sooner or later. When I was in Iowa, a sheriff's deputy hit one, it came through his windshield and he was killed. The investigators determined he was speeding, though he wasn't on his way to a call. So, they kept assuring us that this wouldn't happen if you're driving at the speed limit. All I know is, it made an impression on me.

I saw these signs on the Indiana Toll Road last week. If they work (and I have no idea) I wish more roads had 'em. ?v=0

skunk :cry:

That can take MONTHS to get out if it got hit real bad.

Running with some other dogs across Fletcher Ave on the north side of USF in Tampa. I stopped to see how injured it was but it had disappeard, so maybe it wasn't too hurt.
Went around a turn a little too fast on Morris Bridge Rd and came upon the Monday lunch meeting of the Buzzard's Club, dining on...uh, whatever.
I did a lotta brake and they agreed to a quick takeoff, so no damage done.

The first squirrel suffered greatly :( .I hit him with my carolla. (sorry mr squirrel)
Squirrel two felt little pain My Tires turned him into a pancake :(
The f'n bird flew into my car. I recall him sort of shaking it off and flying clumsily away.
I almost hit a deer last Nov.

But the cow really hit me. It charged into the side of my car. I was trying to drive really slow past it. It had somehow gotten to the wrong side of the fence.

gutted a deer with my Chevy Vega on Hwy 101 in California about 20 years ago, and missed a baby moose by literally inches in the Yukon once

and I had a period a couple years ago where birds were committing suicide by flying into my car :shrug:

I have had a goose fly into my windshield. I have hit several deer. I can't even remember how many squirrels and possum. At least one raccoon. I also was hit by a moose in Montana.

:D :shrug:

You kill 'em, We grill 'em!!1!!

RoadKill Cafe!!

I was on my way home from work. The only thing I saw was the mid-section to the backside. I saw no head or tail. I was traveling on a main road when I came upon the deer suddenly. I came home crying. I was distraught while I was telling my husband about it. At first, I thought I hit a dog. It was after the police came out to investigate that we found out it was a deer.

a snake, and a racoon.

Hmmm... I might have hit a cat once. And probably a squirrel or two.

That fucker was running along side of me for a couple miles, in broad daylight. Eventually, he tried to cross the highway.

I did not hit him, but he hit me! He ran into the side of my car. He destroyed the right side of my car, shattered the right windows, and my windshield. All I really recall is instinctively holding my son back, and my glasses flying off my face.

There was some mysterious brown crap on the right side of my car that I assumed was deer hide. I was later advised by the people who fixed my car that it was deer shit.

BTW, I did make a stop to call the Sheriff, because he was limping across the road and suffering.

NOT ON PURPOSE either!!! The deer jumped in front of my car, it HIT me. $3K damage to my car. But I was sobbing because of the deer.

(They really are stupid animals though, I hate to say it --not bright)

Living out in the sticks (where i did in NC), assorted wildlife seemed to see my oncoming headlights as a quick exit to the Happy Meadow in the sky, and would suddenly jump from the underbrush; i missed many, but a few of them weren't so lucky.

The peacock belonged to a guy who lived close to my mom... he had assorted exotic fowl in his yard, but no fences or anything to keep the danged things out of the road. A couple of his peafowl did get hit over time, though not by me (thank goodness... would have been a huge mess).

The deer was right here in town... there are woods on both sides of the road on my drive home, and at about 2am, i had a good sized buck jump in front of me; his head hit my front passenger-side fender, and he fell into the ditch. Amazingly, it dodn't screw up my car too badly... just left a bloody tuft of fur stuck in the bumper and a cracked headlight casing.

I swerved to miss him, and ran right over him instead.
That was 30 years ago, still sorry about it.
Didn't mean it, honest.
What the hell were you doing on the road, anyway?

mark

The dog actually ran into me. I stopped the car but he kept coming. He was okay. The squirrel didn't do so well. I tried avoiding him but it was during an ice storm. Last Sunday, I avoided hitting a cute little woodchuck baby that had run out into the road followed by his mother. After I had stopped the car and honked the horn, the little one started running towards me but a passenger in another car got out and herded him to the side of the road.

If I hit anything else, it was too small for me to even notice.

Once I took the road between Tehachapi and Ventura late at night. Thump, thump, thump. Hundreds of jackrabbits. they just kept bouncing off the car all night long.

I was in my late teens/early twenties. I cried.

Both unavoidable - they ran (flew) right into the road just as I was passing by. The cat made me cry, and I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when I hit the bird. Although, I must confess, though I felt awful about hitting it, the explosion of feathers did make me giggle. A little.

I was driving down a road near home at around thirty mph and I saw a hawk eating a rabbit on the side of the road. I slowed a little bit and made sure I got to the other side so as to not disturb the feast. He panicked as I approached but decided to try to carry the rabbit with him. He got about four feet up & decided to lose the rabbit to gain altitude. The rabbit hit my windshield and rolled back onto the road.

I have also hit rabbits the traditional way. I HATE the way they try to escape by running from the safety of the roadside right in front of you. I try to avoid them but it comes down to safety issues.

I have hit a cow once or twice but always at low speed. Guy down the road lets his cows get out on the road all the time. They are all black cows & hard to see at night. They tend to panic when you get close & as a result they sometimes get hit.

He was riding in Pennsylvania on his Honda gold-wing & a buck jumped out of the treeline directly into the side of the motorcycle. The deer was killed, the motorcycle was torn up and the rider had some broken ribs & leg along with some really impressive road rash.

And I will never kill a living being with my car if I can help it.

I know that if I ever run over a cat I'll kill myself.

The woodchuck waddled away but I'm afraid I killed both the squirrel and the bird. I try really, really hard to avoid animals in the road but, in both these cases, slamming on the brakes or swerving into the next lane would have caused far more distress. I felt horrible all three times.

SPLAT! he shot straight up from my hood and I looked in the rearview mirror and it took him three seconds to plop back down onto the road. I felt bad, but it was still a rather poetic moment.

damn things would pop up out of nowhere, then <thump thump>. A few summers ago I hit a wild turkey...I was coming around a corner, and a turkey suddenly darted into my path. I had enough time to think "oh shit, a turkey!" BOOM. Nothing but feathers in the rearview. I felt bad for the turkey but couldn't help but laugh at the same time because of the bizarre suddenness, it was just plain strange. And last year early fall a rutting deer rammed my car as I was driving to band practice. It ran off. It destroyed my driver's side door, cracked the windshield, dented the A-pillar, and bashed my rearview mirror completely off. Boy was I mad...I cursed that damn deer all the way to DeForest... (WI)

Prolly the last one in existence.
:shrug: