Have you ever hit an animal by accident with your car?

[Anonymous]

A cat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ran over a turtle. I was a new driver, slowed down to try to drive over it between the tires. Going so slow I could hear the shell crack. Scared to this day! It was awful

I was told of a study done by a college student where he placed fake turtles on a road and recorded what drivers would do. Most elected to deliberately crush the turtles. Horrible.
We live rural near a lot of water and DH will always stop the car and move any turtle to the side of the road it was moving to. He’s done this with baby painted turtles no more the size of fifty cent piece (yes, he has excellent eyes) and two and a half foot long snapping turtles and everything in between.

Your post is pure bull shite. I hope you DH has some sense where he stops his car and where he is playing frogger. You shouldn't be endangering other drivers who don't expect someone to be in the road or a car stopped.

[Anonymous]

Hit a deer as a 16 year old in Pennsylvania. Guy behind me pulled over and reassured me it jumped out of nowhere, then asked if he could have the deer. Threw it into the back of his truck and we both went on our way. I was totally shocked, but the deer went under the tire so didn’t have any damage to the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ran over a turtle. I was a new driver, slowed down to try to drive over it between the tires. Going so slow I could hear the shell crack. Scared to this day! It was awful

I was told of a study done by a college student where he placed fake turtles on a road and recorded what drivers would do. Most elected to deliberately crush the turtles. Horrible.
We live rural near a lot of water and DH will always stop the car and move any turtle to the side of the road it was moving to. He’s done this with baby painted turtles no more the size of fifty cent piece (yes, he has excellent eyes) and two and a half foot long snapping turtles and everything in between.

My dad used to do this, too - he would stop on busy roads, and literally stop traffic for the turtle, then move the turtle safely. I think it speaks volumes about a person's heart, if they are willing to do such a thing.

No it doesn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you do if you hit a deer and it died? Pull over, call the police? There are deer everywhere where I live.

You're supposed to call the police if there is a certain dollar amount of damage done to your car from the accident. I would only pull over and call at a safe location. If the deer is in the road and a hazard to others, definitely call. Under no circumstances would I stop where it isn't safe and I wouldn't be hunting for the deer. No one is going to rehabilitate it or a goose or a squirrel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ran over a turtle. I was a new driver, slowed down to try to drive over it between the tires. Going so slow I could hear the shell crack. Scared to this day! It was awful

I was told of a study done by a college student where he placed fake turtles on a road and recorded what drivers would do. Most elected to deliberately crush the turtles. Horrible.
We live rural near a lot of water and DH will always stop the car and move any turtle to the side of the road it was moving to. He’s done this with baby painted turtles no more the size of fifty cent piece (yes, he has excellent eyes) and two and a half foot long snapping turtles and everything in between.

Your post is pure bull shite. I hope you DH has some sense where he stops his car and where he is playing frogger. You shouldn't be endangering other drivers who don't expect someone to be in the road or a car stopped.

tell me you haven't lived in a rural area without telling me. Why is this BS? This is common in rural areas.

[Anonymous]

Used to live in the midwest. Three deer, a raccoon, and a cat.

The cat was a miserable experience. I was driving on a highway and at a point in a town where it went down to 30mph, which I was doing. I heard a thump and looked in my rearview mirror and saw a cat flailing in the road and then got run over again by the truck behind me. It ran into the road from the side--never saw it in front of me.

The raccoon did the worst damage to my car--destroyed the right front bumper and headlight.

The biggest deer I hit I clipped straight on and it flipped up and over the car--barely scratched my car. Our eyes locked through the sunroof while it was upside down flying through the air. The county police called later and said they saw a blood trail but it stopped and they never found the deer.

rural life!

[Anonymous]

I hit a squirrel once and felt terrible. Then more recently on a vacation I backed into a beautiful huge turtle. It was not pretty.

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure I killed a square or spun him in my wheel well. He acted all squirrelly when I zigged and he zagged

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ran over a turtle. I was a new driver, slowed down to try to drive over it between the tires. Going so slow I could hear the shell crack. Scared to this day! It was awful

I was told of a study done by a college student where he placed fake turtles on a road and recorded what drivers would do. Most elected to deliberately crush the turtles. Horrible.
We live rural near a lot of water and DH will always stop the car and move any turtle to the side of the road it was moving to. He’s done this with baby painted turtles no more the size of fifty cent piece (yes, he has excellent eyes) and two and a half foot long snapping turtles and everything in between.

Your post is pure bull shite. I hope you DH has some sense where he stops his car and where he is playing frogger. You shouldn't be endangering other drivers who don't expect someone to be in the road or a car stopped.

tell me you haven't lived in a rural area without telling me. Why is this BS? This is common in rural areas.

I do this in fort Washington. Little aholes have the never to hiss.

[Anonymous]

Deer ran into e side of my car once. Car was fine (minimal body work) but poor deer limped off. It was upsetting

[Anonymous]

I hit a dog on Dupont Circle over 25 years ago and it still haunts me. It was pouring rain, about 5:30 pm on a cold winter evening, during rush hour. It was some sort of white, small dog. I saw him on the corner as I approached and he jump right in front of my car. I think he has lost and confused by all the headlights. There were so many cars and the traffic was horrible. I couldn’t even pull over to help him/her. I pray the people on the corner helped him.

[Anonymous]

By accident? People try to do this??? That has literally never occurred to me. I understand not swerving but do people want to hit animals?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ran over a turtle. I was a new driver, slowed down to try to drive over it between the tires. Going so slow I could hear the shell crack. Scared to this day! It was awful

I was told of a study done by a college student where he placed fake turtles on a road and recorded what drivers would do. Most elected to deliberately crush the turtles. Horrible.
We live rural near a lot of water and DH will always stop the car and move any turtle to the side of the road it was moving to. He’s done this with baby painted turtles no more the size of fifty cent piece (yes, he has excellent eyes) and two and a half foot long snapping turtles and everything in between.

Your post is pure bull shite. I hope you DH has some sense where he stops his car and where he is playing frogger. You shouldn't be endangering other drivers who don't expect someone to be in the road or a car stopped.

tell me you haven't lived in a rural area without telling me. Why is this BS? This is common in rural areas.

The bull shite is the imaginary study by a college student saying most people try to hit them. What a load of hooey. Btw, I have lived in rural areas.