Road Deaths that go un-reported.

I (accidently) drove over a seagull once......while it was flying!

I drive a 4x4 so I intentionally drive over cuddly animals and children:D

But seriously, I drove over a sheep dog once (I was in an An Post van and he was chasing me) he ran away but I knew he was fcuked. I felt so guilty that I didnt sleep that night. I went back to the owners house to tell him the next day and when I came back to the van the same dog was pissing against the tyre:D.

I ran over another dog later in a tractor (definately died) and his owner gave off to me for driving too fast:rolleyes:.

The down side of this is that now everytime I see a dog running out of a house to chase my car I brake or swerve which is really stupid on small country roads!!

I ran over a rabbit with my ride on lawn mower last week does that count in the motors forum.
Poor f%^^ker was in the long grass and too young to know to move. I was not cutting at the time but it kinda ran around for a few minutes and took off up the field thank god as the kids were standing watching.

I think we have this the wrong way around.

I saw a bullock make shiyte of a 2CV in a collision once.

Bloody cows, maniacs on the road.:rolleyes:

Was driving through the Curragh last week and a girl in front of me hit a dog. The poor dog was still alive but it was plain to see it's back was broken in a few places.
I can't imagine it survived.
Still feel pretty upset when I think about it.

On a lighter note, I was driving years ago and hit a bat. Didn't realise at the time, but when I arrived at my destination and got out of the car I got a strong smell of something cooking. Turns out the bat was cooked crispy as it was sprawled across one of the headlights!!!
Took a bit of scraping to get it off, smelt a bit like a cooked chicken

Killed a wren once with a fiesta. Did not know about it at the time. It was only when my da lifted the bonnet on the car one day to fix something that we saw it wedged into the mesh under the lip of the bonnet. Also welded a cats skull to the road last year. The dippy fecker ran out in front of me, stopped, went back and then changed his mind and went for it. I braked, swerved hard and just managed to get him! (i joke) I looked in the mirror and could see a flattened head and the rest of him sticking up in the air. Nasty.

My friend wrote off a fiesta van he had a few years back. lost it on a newly laid road surface and turned it over. He got a replacement festy and a week late he hit a flock of sheep with it! He was driving from Tuam to Galway city one saturday night when a flock suddnely appeared in front of him. They ran out an open gate from a farmers yard and into the traffic. He minced two of them and i think the car behind him also clipped a few too. He said the smell and sights were horrrific of mangled sheep. Made bits of his car too, 3g worth of damage at the time.

OP - check your front bumper, you probably kill a few hundred flies and insects each month

about 10 years ago i did a stint in dublin bus driving the small yellow imp buses,turning onto francis st with a bus full of passengers a fat pigeon smacks into the windscreen with an almighty thud,all the passengers go "ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!"!simultaneously ,and i just keep driving normally then i hear some pensioner say "that f**ker doesnt give a b***ocks bout that pigeon,didnt even stop to see was he alright"!!!:eek:

The only good cat is a flat cat!

You used to (still?) get a lot of grain trucks on the road between Cork and Macroom. The crows would be out on the road eating the spilled grain. When a car came along the young crows would fly off, while the older, smarter ones would just hop across the white line great for the crows ... except for when there was a car coming the other way as well. SMACK! :eek:

I've seen a lot of young animals dead around the city over the last few weeks, including a hedgehog. They're just of of the nest or whatever and aren't used to traffic.

The you see eall the dead tyres on the side of the road - tehy try to make it across during the night, but they never make it.

bigpinkelephant wrote: »

It is the owner's fault for not having the dog confined in the first place, and he is liable for any damage done to your car by the dog.

You are mad to be braking or swerving to avoid the dogs- what if you caused an accident to yourself or others? You have to put your own safety first. Again the dog shouldn;t be allowed roam on its own in the first place.

Yup I know, but its instinct. If is see something in my peripheral vision coming straight out in front of me then I instinctively react. obviously I have never swerved into oncoming traffic or onto the other side of the road but I have mounted a ditch once.
The worst case was when I met two ladies out walking on the side of the road and I noticed one had a leash in her hand but no sign of a dog.
I slowed down and about 100 metres up the road this dog jumps out of a drain and starts biting at my front wheel. luckily I was able to stop but I got out and gave the little fcuker a kick that lifted him off the ground.

There are still a load of places around where dogs will just run out of a yard onto a main road to chase cars going past, I think its so irresponsible of the owners.

Slig wrote: »

luckily I was able to stop but I got out and gave the little fcuker a kick that lifted him off the ground.

Next time kick the owner, not the dog.

A Friend of mine did serious damage to the front of his fiesta one night coming home from work.
(We were bartenders at the time). The dog ran out in front of him and he didn't have time to react so the poor doggy got splappedededededed....

I've hit a bird or 2 in my time but the stupidest thing I've done with regards to road kill is serve to TRY and get 2 rats on the side of the road.

In all my years driving through the phoenix park and never seeing an animal related accident, I came across the aftermath of a car vs Reindeer collision a couple of weeks ago, car was in $hite, went fully over and came to rest on top of the reindeer. Driver and passanger were fine, just white as ghosts as you'd expect.

TBH I amazed I don't see more of it in the Park.

I have to admit to swerving a little trying to get the odd rat on the way to work some mornings:o

Too early for cat pics?


Joking aside, I've never killed anything bigger than flies and maybe an odd mouse scurrying across the road at night. A friend hit a deer and had to kill it with his tyre iron before calling the cops, it was in a bad state.

micmclo wrote: »

Once hit by a bird while on a motorbike.
It’s like getting a punch in the chest from Mike Tyson. Had to pull over for a few minutes to recover as I was badly winded and could barely breathe.

Been there done that, I have hit and killed 2 badgers (on the bike as well) I have hit 2 Labrador dogs with my car, 1st time dented the wing, 2nd time had to replace the front bumper, headlight, grille and bonet. The dogs were fine. OP said how some people treat their pets like family, IMO if that were the case the dogs would not have been on the road in the first place.

Killed two really beautiful ducks leaving work one night. We have a big lake and they were outside on the road having a snooze by the ditch in the middle of a trough.

Hit them before I saw them, first fella only flew as high as the bumper, dead straight away. Second one hit the top of the windscreen and broke his wing. Took him to the vet but wing was far too bad and had to be put down.

Other than them, maybe 2,500 flies a year. M50 speeds they liquefy as they hit your car.

Poor feckers.

junkyard wrote: »

I came across a dead Labrador the other morning going through Mayfield, it was like a crime scene, blood everywhere, the poor thing must have been hit by a truck. Tbh anyone who leaves a dog loose on the road should get jail.

i came very close to killing a dog there the other morning. the owner was taking it for a walk without a leash :rolleyes:. idiot.

it ran across the front of my car at the last second and i barely avoided rolling over it. i blew the horn at the owner because it was his fault that it nearly happened and you should see the look he gave me, as if i was wrong :rolleyes:.

i reckon he was trying to get my reg number as i was driving away because he went out in the middle of the road looking after me as i drove away (after coming close to throwing a few f**ks his way due to his attitude) and i hope he got it too. ill be only too happy to inform any Garda that might ask me about this incident about the lack of control he had over his pet :rolleyes:. after all, if it was on a leash how could it run out like that ? hope he's not that thick although it wouldnt surprise me.

The recommended technique if you are suddenly confronted by a large animal (e.g. cow, deer, horse) and after braking hard you realise you are going to impact, is to get off the brakes and floor the throttle. If you hit the animal while braking hard, the front of your car is down low (from braking), you will hit the animal's legs low down and the animal will be scooped onto the bonnet and through the windscreen, probably killing you and/or any passengers.

By flooring the throttle, you lift the front of the car, and the impact will be less likely to result in the above outcome.

Counter-intuitive, maybe, but it's what I'll be doing if the situation ever arises. Remember, it is only when you cannot avoid an impact that you do this.