E30 Zone

Just hit a fricking badger! Rounded a corner over a crest and the stupid thing was in the middle of the road. Luckily not a huge male, but a small female, but still made a nice mess of at least my front valance and I think its knocked my exhaust also

Bloody thing was still alive as well to make me feel worse, so i called the RSPCA and waited with it while they were on their way to it

Did you exchange insurance details?

i know how you feel mate, ive hit 3 badgers in the last 8 months.

they cause serious damage, ive had to replace 2 front valances and 3 lower grills on my skoda superb (taxi)

They've started to cull badgers in my area now. Their numbers have increased massively in the last few years. I now see more dead badgers than foxes round here. Never the case a few years back.

Sorry to here you'e got damage. Photo's?

I hit on a couple of years ago. I had never seen one before then and never new how bloodly big they were.. Lucky I was on a co car so the damage was not a problem, but I did feela bad about it...

I hit, well (whan I say hit i actually went right over it), a fox and spent a week power hosing it out of the engine bay.

My old boss wrote off his company mitsi L200 hitting a deer. If he still had the bull bars on it would have been ok but as it was it took out the bonnet, bumper, grill, a headlight, a wing, and fooked up the radiator and a load ofother things so theinsurance wrote it off.

A lot of dead ones on the road are from farmers shooting them or trapping them and dumping them on the road like road kill!

A mechanic that does work for me hit a cow in his E39 a couple of months ago. Very messy.

Here they are protected, a farmer was taken to court accused of killing a badger. But in other places they cull them I know.

Dont see many to think i am in the middle of the countryside, just the odd dead one on the road or shuffling along at night.

Gutted for you all the same, I hit a buzzard as you do, and a little garden bird and felt awful. I try to avoid the squirrels but I hit one th other day Though I would have cried if it damaged the car

Scruffy: No way to talk aboout his missus. Plus I can't condone domestic violence

I swerved to avoid a pair of bunnies at 2am on a cold winters morn. I ended upside down and 40 yards from the road, having rolled the car three times. Do I still try and avoid bunnies? Nope. Now I aim for them, that takes away the natural reaction to flinch and slam on the brakes. If it's smaller than a labrador then go for it. It really takes them by surprise.

I ran over a cow in my L200 but that was on purpose.

old_skool wrote:
I ran over a cow in my L200 but that was on purpose.

Your A Sick Man!.... Do Tell All

If I hadn't taken it down then it would have made it to the busy main road and murdered all the innocent motorists going about their day. To say it was surprised was an understatement.

Thankfully there was only a bit of damage to the truck so all was well.

I was a rear seat passenger in a Renault 19 that T boned (terrible pun, i know) a cow square on at about 60mph. Completely destroyed the car, but the poor cow lived for a few minutes before expiring. Very solid animals!

i was being towed by my partners dad the other night when on the a15 (the arrow sraight bit north of lincoln) he swerved to avoid a rabbit which promptly went under my wheels .............. muppet

I only seem to get rats
must be something about living in London

I get seriously pi$$ed off when my GF swerves or brakes for every pheasant or bunny on the road. Doing that is usually far more dangerous than ploughing straight over whatever it is, especially any car behind you won't have any warning as to what is going on. You're still better off hitting a car head on that a car coming the other way or even a tree.
That goes for the UK anyway, I wouldn't fancy taking the legs out from underneath a moose and seeing it topple through the windscreen...


My most gory incident was hitting a pheasant at about 70mph. It hit the RH main beam unit square on, smashed the brackets completely and then detonated on the windscreen. I had to hit the wash/wipe immediately to get some visibility through the blood, guts and feathers. Nasty.

Only road kill I ever done was a Mondeo ST24

daimlerman wrote:Did you exchange insurance details?

Sadly the badger was uninsured..

B7 wrote:They've started to cull badgers in my area now. Their numbers have increased massively in the last few years. I now see more dead badgers than foxes round here. Never the case a few years back.

Sorry to here you'e got damage. Photo's?

Biggest thing ive hit yet.. I ran over a fox (im 99% sure it was a fox..) a while back but that was technically hit by the car in front, so when I ran over it, it was just road kill

Not been out to look in the day light.. But I did take pics of the claw marks in the road!

old_skool wrote:I swerved to avoid a pair of bunnies at 2am on a cold winters morn. I ended upside down and 40 yards from the road, having rolled the car three times. Do I still try and avoid bunnies? Nope. Now I aim for them, that takes away the natural reaction to flinch and slam on the brakes. If it's smaller than a labrador then go for it. It really takes them by surprise.

I ran over a cow in my L200 but that was on purpose.

I dont swerve for bunnies anymore, hit many of them now, but badgers do a little more damage..

How did you determine the sex of said badger!?

Theo325 wrote:How did you determine the sex of said badger!?

I'm assuming the RSPCA took their time in arriving to the scene. Nowt else to do in't country!

Theo325 wrote:How did you determine the sex of said badger!?

Alyman wrote:I was a rear seat passenger in a Renault 19 that T boned (terrible pun, i know) a cow square on at about 60mph. Completely destroyed the car, but the poor cow lived for a few minutes before expiring. Very solid animals!

my uncle hit a cow some years back. the cow was fucked but still alive. being a coarse fellow but a staunch conservationist he went back and finished it off with his tyre iron. the farmer thanked him for it.

just remembered i hit a pheasant in my mk1 golf. i looked in my rear view mirror to see two halves flying off in opposite directions. the front of the car was not a pretty sight.

The incident I feel most guilty about was while cycling over a footbridge in Cambridge, a mother duck and her ducklings happened to be crossing just as I was going over it, and despite attempting to avoid them, the horrified gasp of a girl walking in the opposite direction had me thinking I must have squashed one of the ducklings (I didn't stop or look back to find out!)

Alyman wrote:I was a rear seat passenger in a Renault 19 that T boned (terrible pun, i know) a cow square on at about 60mph. Completely destroyed the car, but the poor cow lived for a few minutes before expiring. Very solid animals!

Yeah, very well made, check out how the suspension is lowered when they park!

My hitlist so far includes a cat that appeared out of nowhere in a middle of the city. I wasn't going fast but still too fast to brake, I'm afraid the cat must have had at least one fracture as it limped away.

Another casualty was a chicken - I decapitated it in the truest sense of the word. Stupid thing ran out in front of the car while I was driving on the country road, and yes - it did run around flaping its wings about for a while after losing the head. Bloody company car, that Ford Focus will be forever haunted by poor animals I tell yea!

One time a guy in front of me was driving old Audi A6 when I saw the brake lights come on. After a second this massive mothership of a moose slowly emerged on the road in front of Audi's headlights. As the road was icy the car didn't stop fully, slowly bumping the mahoosive animal on the rear legs. It sat down in a surprise but then got back up and slowly continued on it's way. Had the guy been going over the speed limit (as people frequently do in Latvia) he would have been a very dead owner of a freshly modified Audi convertible with some 600kg's of meat firmly embedded into the fresly repainted red interior.

This seems appropriate for this thread

WTF!!!!^^^^^^^

Theo325 wrote:How did you determine the sex of said badger!?

Well its cost me money, and obviously took a disliking to my car? Those are female traits right?

march109 wrote:

Theo325 wrote:How did you determine the sex of said badger!?

I'm assuming the RSPCA took their time in arriving to the scene. Nowt else to do in't country!

The RSPCA lady said what it was

eko wrote:This seems appropriate for this thread

Yes thats what the fox looked like in my engine bay only fortunatly he went under the car then up through the bay towards the bonnet coming apart at the seamslitterally on the way, so not as much damage.

Was power hosing parts out for weeks though and the car stank a bit too. Sold it soon after when I realised there was no getting rid of the smell, a couple of magic trees got it sold god knows where it is now.

Claw marks anyone?

You cant see it, but they have gouged the tarmac for a good 2m.. Fuck going near a healthy badger

Yeah, they're basically a bear on a council drop. Nasty.