I ran off the road once to avoid a deer. $2600 worth of damage to a diesel Escort hardly any damage to the bodywork but the undercarriage was pretty much wiped out, I did not realize in the dark that the field was 4 feet lower than the road. I figured next time I would hit the SOB; it would cost me $7-800 in repairs and I would get to keep the venison to offset that. Here in the mountains where I now live you would be a dead fool to veer more that a lanes worth to avoid hitting anything.
Gonz wrote: > I hit a large coyote with a minivan once, at about 75 miles per hour. > It just ran into the highway at night, and afraid a sudden maneuver > would flip the vehicle, I just tried to keep it away from the path of > the tires and center the van. The impact cracked the plastic skirt > under the front bumper and left some marks on the bumper itself. If > it had been my bimmer, that would have been much worse, being much > closer to the ground. > > My sister-in-law is a nurse and once she was called late at night due > to a bad accident. A family of four lost three people due to the > driver trying to avoid a raccoon crossing the highway and running > their car off the highway and flipping it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
