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[Steve440]

On a motorbike, even a pigeon hurts.  Luckily the frame took a lot of the impact but it stung my knee something chronic and I was picking feathers out of the engine fins for weeks.

I took one full on in the chest last summer, it winded me and I was lucky to stay on the bike, luckily the jacket I was wearing must have spread the load but I even had feathers in my helmet.

Makes you think.

Steve

[ScarbSaab]

On a motorbike, even a pigeon hurts.  Luckily the frame took a lot of the impact but it stung my knee something chronic and I was picking feathers out of the engine fins for weeks.

Had it been at head-height, I shudder to think....

Even in a car, a head height pigeon is scary (though preferable to yours and Steve's incidents). Three direct strikes over the years: once on a headlight, once on radiator grill and once on windscreen. However, the last one did get the tailgater to drop back, I don't know if it was the cloud of feathers billowing around my car or the carcass flung over the roof at him...

[Geoff1951]

Blimey, that link posted by David was grim.
 The deer I hit sailed over the roof after hitting the bonnet, my passenger looked up from the map he was reading to see it go over.

I knew a chap years ago who hit a horse head on. Down an unlit minor A road at night, it'd presumably escaped from a field and was just standing in a dip in the road. He was off work for six months. 

[dw]

Local wisdom round here is that it is the second deer that you hit, the first one runs across the road then followed by another and sometimes even more. In one year I knew three people who had cars destroyed by deer running into them.

[Steve440]

I found this on You tube about deer crossing a road. You must have the sound on. Yes this is real

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CI8UPHMzZm8?rel=0

Steve

[Geoff1951]

I found this on You tube about deer crossing a road. You must have the sound on. Yes this is real

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CI8UPHMzZm8?rel=0

Steve

Well, we can't all have an IQ in three figures.

[Mr Linear]

I saw a small pony hit by a Honda Civic a few months ago.

The pony was  unfortuately killed as was the Civic.

[Audax]

I know 1 person who was killed after hitting a deer on a main road in Norfolk, it came through the wind screen and killed him. Also another guy I know of was killed by hitting a pheasant when he was on a motorcycle, he hit the pheasant and as a result partially lost control while at the same time a car was pulling out of a side road and he didn't get an opportunity to drive around it. 

[Norfolk Jim]

ScarbSaab - I would take the millet off your screen!

Long time back I stopped at scene of bazaar accident one evening near the wonderfully named Fosdyke to see if I could help as there appeared to be a motorbike in middle of the road. Plod and ambulance crew (one who I knew well) were looking around for the rider who was nowhere to be seen. We all spent about an hour looking and assume they must have come off and were not badly hurt but got a lift somewhere from passing car. There was evidence of a good skid mark on the road though.................

Next morning at first light the police had a call from passing motorist who had reported a grizzly sight - yep it was the rider and sadly he was dead. He was nearly at the top of the nearby telegraph pole impaled on the leg irons. From what they'd found police worked it out that they must have been travelling 100+ and had hit a hedgehog which had slowed bike with big jerk and sent him flying! The hedgehog was in the skid for about 30yds!

We were amazed Audax that our teacher was still ok with stag through her screen

[Norfolk Jim]

Oh yeh and when they finish the dual carriageway between Thetford and Barton Mills it will be a scary road at night - right through middle of Thetford Forest!

[wrighar]

Oh yeh and when they finish the dual carriageway between Thetford and Barton Mills it will be a scary road at night - right through middle of Thetford Forest!

Better an oncoming Stag than an oncoming Saxo  (I think....)

[CitTone]

Depends upon the variety of Stag involved - four legs or eight cylinders.

Saxos fold up more easily than either.