[MLJJ]

First, I love dogs and have owned one or more for my entire adult life, and am never happy when dog/car encounters happen. My adult daughter came home for an extended Easter weekend visit. It was her first time seeing the new P car and was excited to drive it. We went on a 60 miles round trip through some nice two-lane country roads for about an hour. Half way through, a smallish (10-15 lb) dog darted onto the road in an attempt to chase us. My daughter managed to slow to about 30 mph before clipping the dog on the front right fender (LHD). The truck in back of us locked its brakes and oncoming traffic avoided us as well. Without going into gory details, the dog was injured and a neighbor returned it to its owners. The car was unscathed. My rules for engagement of smallish critters on the road are (in priority): self and passengers, car, critter. However, I would sacrifice the car to avoid a moose! It does take some commitment to run over smallish things rather than swerve to avoid them, but I've hit enough wildlife for it to become habit, unfortunately. Drive safely friends.

 

[GregW]

Brake--yes, swerve--yes, into another lane--no.

Avoiding a moose has nothing to do with the well-being of the moose or the car, it's just basically trying to stay alive!

 

[johan]

I have first hand experience of both deers and mooses.
There is No Way In H-ll i would hit one in a 718 because the chance to die are very high!!
My first 718 BS i trashed avoiding a moose, i would not be hear to tell you this otherwise....

Deers, we have a ton of them where i live i see 10-20 of them daily.
They are not as deadly as mooses but......

 

[Muppet]

Scary photos @johan

But I bet most people viewing that picture are thinking that Moose has got an infeasibly large set of testicles ! >

Best advice if it’s small don’t put yourself in a ditch trying to avoid it.

 

[aeronca65tl]

I have first hand experience of both deers and mooses.
There is No Way In H-ll i would hit one in a 718 because the chance to die are very high!!
My first 718 BS i trashed avoiding a moose, i would not be hear to tell you this otherwise....

Deers, we have a ton of them where i live i see 10-20 of them daily.
They are not as deadly as mooses but......

That track in the video you posted with the Porsche hitting the deer is Summit Point, West Virginia.

I've run dozens of events there and probably have thousands of laps around that place. I actually recognize two of the workers in the video. Summit is about 4 hours from me here in northeast USA. Unquestionably my favourite track.

But they do have an animal problem there. One time, I was there and a cow wandered onto the track (right around the same area as that deer-hit) when cars are near top speed. Luckily, she didn't get hit. After that, one of the flagger made up a "Cow Flag".

Another time I was running a 4-hour night enduro (in my MG). A driver in a SpecMiata hit a wild turkey about half way down that straight. Luckily it hit on the passenger side. SpecMiatas are fitted with hardtops. The turkey smashed through the windscreen and filled the interior of the car with feathers and guts. They cleared all the mess out, removed what was left of the broken windscreen and send him back out. Part of the reason I love amateur endurance racing.

Summit Point has new owners as of the this year and they have added more fencing in key area to keep out deer and other animals. But this is rural West Virginia and there is no way to keep out all the wild turkeys. All part of the experience, I guess!

I'll be instructing and racing at Summit in less than a month.

https://vrgonline.org/vrg/wp-content/uploads/events/j500/J500_Schedule_2019_v1.pdf

Back home, here in New Jersey, I get at least a dozen white-tail deer running through my back yard every day. We live near a moderate speed road (35 mph) and I hear brakes slamming all the time due to deer running across it.

I'm sorry to hear about the dog in the original post. The fault is with the owner letting it run wild. But still, no one likes to think of animals getting hurt.

 

[johan]

Scary photos @johan

But I bet most people viewing that picture are thinking that Moose has got an infeasibly large set of testicles ! >

Best advice if it’s small don’t put yourself in a ditch trying to avoid it.

Yea!
Picture getting those planted in your face

 

[Muppet]

Two guys waiting in a queue outside The Pearly Gates having a chat.

The first old timer says “ I had a great life and died in my sleep.”

The second guy says “ I don’t know what happened to me, I was out driving in my car and the last thing I remember was being smacked across the face by a giant pair of Moose Testicles”

>

 

[MLJJ]

How would the coroner report that? Testicular homicide!

 

[JazzCatGab]

How would the coroner report that? Testicular homicide!

Moose fitting in car?

 

[Porsche2018]

That is the main reason I don't take out my Porsche at night where I live; just too many deer.

 

[X2Board]

That is the main reason I don't take out my Porsche at night where I live; just too many deer.

Same here! One of the downsides to living in the country.

 

[Porsche2018]

Same here! One of the downsides to living in the country.

This is true but we have great back roads and I was born and raised in Brooklyn New York and by comparison........the more rural areas are better. I am maybe 20 minutes from Austin which is close enough.

 

[Muppet]

Here in the U.K. we have a problem with Brown Bear’s in the countryside.

Ran into one the other day in my 718 >

 

[Nosmo]

hahahahahahah nice one

 

[Uz718]

Hahahahahahahahahaha

 

[jimmuller]

Here in the U.K. we have a problem with Brown Bear’s in the countryside.

We have a problem with small animals getting into our Cayman, especially when we are eating lunch at a wildlife sanctuary.

 

[Muppet]

Don’t tell the kids.....

But I also took out Scooby-Doo. >

 

[Uz718]

You guys have too much time on your hands hahahahahaha

 

[Porsche2018]

@Muppet , absolutely gruesome pictures. Hopefully, my wife and I won't have nightmares. May I suggest a good drivers education course?

 

[4802]

@Muppet May I suggest a good drivers education course?

Along with a visit to a good psychiatrist, because if you're normal Muppet, then I really pray to God that I'm not.