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On the way into work tonight, busy dark unlit A road, I just ran over a critter (rabbit or something) 馃槩馃槩

I feel so bad! I didn't have time to spot it with traffic coming the other way, but I felt it pop and there's blood or something on my wheel聽

Never had anything like that before, I've always spotted it and moved in time or its already been long dead iykwim聽

Do I need to report it?

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Nothing to report if it's just a rabbit, fox, badger, etc. I think you only have to report dogs, horses, etc. People's property basically.

Not a lot you can do to avoid it sometimes. Not had it when driving myself but have been a passenger when hitting a rabbit on a NSL road.

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18 minutes ago, laumk7 said:

Do I need to report it?

No, not if it was a rabbit or something similar from the wild

Farm livestock, I think you do, but if you'd hit something cow sized, I don't think the ST would be drivable:mellow:聽 My mate hit a deer once, his Rover looked like it had hit a train:ohmy:

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43 minutes ago, laumk7 said:

Do I need to report it?

Like Alex & Ghana say, no.

From www.gov.uk:

"You must stop and report the accident to the police if you hit any:

  • dogs
  • horses
  • cattle, eg cows
  • pigs
  • goats
  • sheep
  • donkeys and mules

You must do this as quickly as you can, whether the animal is killed or not."

But I think you would know if you had hit one of those. One notable omission from that list is cats, whoever compiled that list (long, long ago, I expect), obviously was not a cat fan!

Other dead animals can be reported to the council, whether hit by you or already dead, and they may come to remove them. But that is optional. (https://www.gov.uk/report-dead-animal)

In my years of driving, I have run over a frog (or so I was told by an annoyed GF outside the car, who saw it ohmy.png, and tried to signal me to stopsad.png), a pheasant, and a badger. Not nice, but probably inevitable over the course of time. (All were direct hits, they did not suffer).

The pheasant & the badger damaged the car, the frog damaged my relationship with the GF for a while!

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I've had a few near misses, thankfully all in daylight and on empty roads where I could brake and swerve to avoid them, but sometimes these things are just unavoidable, especially at night.

By the sounds of it - it wouldn't have suffered - if that is any consolation...

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1 hour ago, Tdci-Peter said:

Like Alex & Ghana say, no.

From www.gov.uk:

"You must stop and report the accident to the police if you hit any:

  • dogs
  • horses
  • cattle, eg cows
  • pigs
  • goats
  • sheep
  • donkeys and mules

You must do this as quickly as you can, whether the animal is killed or not."

But I think you would know if you had hit one of those. One notable omission from that list is cats, whoever compiled that list (long, long ago, I expect), obviously was not a cat fan!

Other dead animals can be reported to the council, whether hit by you or already dead, and they may come to remove them. But that is optional. (https://www.gov.uk/report-dead-animal)

In my years of driving, I have run over a frog (or so I was told by an annoyed GF outside the car, who saw it ohmy.png, and tried to signal me to stopsad.png), a pheasant, and a badger. Not nice, but probably inevitable over the course of time. (All were direct hits, they did not suffer).

The pheasant & the badger damaged the car, the frog damaged my relationship with the GF for a while!

I was just thinking that!!聽 How dare they...

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1 hour ago, Tdci-Peter said:

One notable omission from that list is cats, whoever compiled that list (long, long ago, I expect), obviously was not a cat fan!

In law, cats are regarded as wild animals not as property, and therefore come under the same category as rabbits, badgers etc

However, this also means the cat owner cannot be held liable for any damage that cat may cause unlike their dog and livestock counterparts

For instance, if Brandy went next door, and had a diarrhoea episode in his Range Rover and then chewed the upholstery: I would be liable.聽 Whereas if Molly and Bunty did the same: I wouldn't

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Hit a deer once down gullane聽when I was doing 60mph on a dark road, killed it outright but it had smashed my headlights, covered the car in hair and left a 3inch crack in my chassis!

Went over a dead dear at night in the road in my last fiesta near Aviemore, had to swerve to go over it centrally (had I breaked,聽the twit behind me would've been up my rear end) left the underside of the car covered in hair and the rear of my car blood spattered! The twit behind me though got a burst radiator as he hit it 'full thwack' as he was too close to me to see it so couldn't take evasive action!

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I've hit quite a few pigeons...for something that can fly they seem pretty reluctant to!! :laugh:

Pheasants as well, but so聽far聽they聽have all just bumped off the bumpers and carry on as if nothing happened!

My mate hit a deer head on in his Mk4 Golf...wrote off the car!聽 And another mate had a badger take out his bumper...and sump!聽 Yes his car was low but those badgers must be made of concrete!

I don't know why animals don't avoid the roads, I mean surely if you see your mates or ancestors splattered everywhere and there's lots of fast moving objects about you'd stay in the woods well away from it! :unsure:

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Just now, TomsFocus said:

I've hit quite a few pigeons...for something that can fly they seem pretty reluctant to!! :laugh:

Pheasants as well, but so聽far聽they聽have all just bumped off the bumpers and carry on as if nothing happened!

My mate hit a deer head on in his Mk4 Golf...wrote off the car!聽 And another mate had a badger take out his bumper...and sump!聽 Yes his car was low but those badgers must be made of concrete!

I don't know why animals don't avoid the roads, I mean surely if you see your mates or ancestors splattered everywhere and there's lots of fast moving objects about you'd stay in the woods well away from it! :unsure:

The roads generally cut across everywhere though, if they haven't built tunnels for them to go under, they have to go over sometimes :(

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12 hours ago, laumk7 said:

On the way into work tonight, busy dark unlit A road, I just ran over a critter (rabbit or something) 馃槩馃槩

I feel so bad! I didn't have time to spot it with traffic coming the other way, but I felt it pop and there's blood or something on my wheel聽

Never had anything like that before, I've always spotted it and moved in time or its already been long dead iykwim聽

Do I need to report it?

No. However you can now place a sticker on the front wing and door panel of the animal you just killed. :smilie_tux::shaun::oops::horse: You get the idea lol

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I had a near miss back in the winter whilst out on a delivery in the dark. Was hooning back to the store (full beams on) and dipped my lights for a few cars coming the other way. Went back onto full beam to find about 5 or 6 deer in the middle of the road.

I had one recently as well whilst delivering to one of the local traveller camps. They had this little "dog" running around free, I asked the lad if he could pick it up which he refused to do. As I was driving to the customer this "dog" ran in front of my car. I think a little bit of poo almost came out!

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i ran over about 3 gophers in Kazakhstan, and hit about 10 birds 聽in Russia because for some weird reason they fly out in front of the car, maybe catching insects.

I also have dash cam footage of a heard of horses in the road, luckily stopped in time.

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I've hit a few pheasants, a buzzard(it flew out of the hedge and even though I braked it hit the car and swerve over it) umpteen rabbits and pigeons(early morning starts are bad for rabbits) and I've nearly hit a baby barn owl, it was in the middle of the road but I hopefully avoided. 聽And then coming into the farm route, I ran over a cow when I had bales on the front end loader, ploughed, disc'd umpteen hares. 聽Baled a few rabbits/hares&聽a fox, splattered聽loads of rats, a few聽squirrels &聽a badger. 聽I've seen a few seagulls get drilled & a rabbit go through the combine and paint the straw red. 聽Had to ditch the rest of that tank of grain. 聽I had a mate that hit a deer twice on two separate occasions聽

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I once went over a crow who must have had balls of steel:blink:, he was picking at the carcase of something else on lane 2 of the M27.聽 Traffic passing him in lanes 1 and 3 and wasn't seemingly bothered.聽 There was no where else for those of us in lane 2 to go so we had to continue straight over the carcase:sad:

Although I and several cars went over him, he remained between the axles and continued to pick at the carcase:ohmy:

On the deer front, the chap who actually founded the business, that I and my partners later took over, was killed as a result of a deer jumping/running into his path.聽 He was on his Yamaha R1 having a Sunday ride, there not a lot you do on a bike when a deer suddenly is in your path!聽 He came off and was thrown against a tree, and died instantly.:sad:

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1 hour ago, GMX said:

crow who must have had balls of steel

Might have been a female with young!laugh.png

Crows are amazingly intelligent. They pick up the rules of the road much quicker than most humans. Though as some humans never seem to understand the rules :wacko:, I might be understating the bird's brain power here.

I have seen cases where as I approached them, they casually hopped back a couple of inches over the white line, then watched impatiently as I went past at 60, just inches away. I have never seen one brave enough to go under the cars though. I wonder what he/she would have done if a sporty car with a very low front air dam had approached?

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4 hours ago, GMX said:

I once went over a crow who must have had balls of steel:blink:, he was picking at the carcase of something else on lane 2 of the M27.聽 Traffic passing him in lanes 1 and 3 and wasn't seemingly bothered.聽 There was no where else for those of us in lane 2 to go so we had to continue straight over the carcase:sad:

Although I and several cars went over him, he remained between the axles and continued to pick at the carcase:ohmy:

On the deer front, the chap who actually founded the business, that I and my partners later took over, was killed as a result of a deer jumping/running into his path.聽 He was on his Yamaha R1 having a Sunday ride, there not a lot you do on a bike when a deer suddenly is in your path!聽 He came off and was thrown against a tree, and died instantly.:sad:

When my mum was younger, her dad's car was written off because a bull escaped its tether, jumped a fence and landed on the bonnet. Insurance company refused to pay out, claiming it was 'an act of god'. Slightly reassuring to know that insurance companies have been !Removed! people over for years and years, not just since I started driving!

I almost hit a deer that yolo'd out of a hedge and ran in front of my car, still running forwards, and only decided after a couple of seconds that maybe running to the other side might be the safer option as it couldn't actually out run me. Nutter.

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6 hours ago, Tdci-Peter said:

Crows are amazingly intelligent.聽

They're not as intelligent as you think :rolleyes:

Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone's relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts.

However, during the detailed analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird's beaks and claws. By analyzing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with trucks, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car.

MTA then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills.

The Ornithological Behaviorist very quickly concluded the cause: when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger.

The scientific conclusion was that while all the lookout crows could say "Cah", none could say "Truck."

:laugh:

I'll get me coat!聽

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My neighbour hit a dog in their 2 year old A3 at 20mph which deployed the pedestrian airbag and caused over 拢2k of damage...

The dog (amazingly) was fine and the owner accepted full liability and she is covering the cost. Interesting to hear that cats aren't regarded as property though? Should be under the same rules as dogs, they're still people's pets.聽

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Just now, chrisroberson99 said:

My neighbour hit a dog in their 2 year old A3 at 20mph which deployed the pedestrian airbag and caused over 拢2k of damage...

The dog (amazingly) was fine and the owner accepted full liability and she is covering the cost. Interesting to hear that cats aren't regarded as property though? Should be under the same rules as dogs, they're still people's pets.聽

The problem is that you can control dogs a lot easier than cats.

Cats are much more independent and you don't think twice about seeing a cat wandering across the road, a dog on the other hand...

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There is no legal requirement to report running over a cat.

You used to have to report hitting dogs when they required a licence but now you don't, however from a moral standpoint it is the decent thing to do.

I avoid hitting anything on the roads when it is at all possible.

Luckily I have only ever hit one rabbit which I humanely dispached and one pigeon which bounced off my windscreen apparently without harm.

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last summer we were towing the caravan with the family car, doing 50-60mph as some of you may know you cant聽swerve with a 4x4 with a 26ft caravan on the back lets just say the remains of a pheasant were on the front of the van.

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On 23/08/2016 at 10:25 PM, Tdci-Peter said:

"You must stop and report the accident to the police if you hit any:

  • dogs
  • horses
  • cattle, eg cows
  • pigs
  • goats
  • sheep
  • donkeys and mules

You must do this as quickly as you can, whether the animal is killed or not."

So that list doesn't include Wives - Good I can run the missus over!!!!!聽:laugh:

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I ran a rabbit over many years ago whilst in my Escort! I pulled up to throw it into the hedge bottom but I couldn't find it!

Three month later the car started to stink after some bad weather, like something dead so investigated the smell and followed my nose only to find that rabbit embedded into the top corner of the inner wing and the wet weather caused it to start to really stink, got a stick and prodded at it and half of it聽fell down and then the rest followed complete with thousands of maggots, the smell was terrible.

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