What have you hit when driving on Australian roads? (fencing, to move)
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The Only thing I have hit in my own car is a couple of cats and an Echidna, which resulted in the need to Replace Two flat tyres.
On the farm however I flattened several Roos and Wallabies (their is a very good reason my most country vehicles have bull bars), and more snakes, Goanna's and Hare's than I would care to remember.
My most memorable one however, was running over a friends dog when I was about Ten, we remain friends to this day, but we will both never forget it.
Last edited by danielsa1775; 07-11-2013 at 01:55 AM..
Once I ran over a duck. That's my only road kill to date. On a family holiday when I was little, my dad ran over a black snake with our station wagon.... the bloody thing just slithered right on back into the bush.
Recently I went for a drive on the hilly roads to Lake Mountain in the evening and saw many wallabies and kangaroos bolting from my headlights. There was a lot of roadkill aswell, mostly kangaroos, some of them right in the middle of the road.
Alot of Bl--dy potholes! The odd bunny and a snake and numerous lizards-probably hundreds of insects and a whole pile of cane toads when we were driving the back roads up near Tully in QLD. My dad hit a wallaby one time out near Dubbo-those things do some serious damage....Ther's a reason you see alot of fencing by country roads-although the roos will jump them it at least stops wombats and the like....
Have hit numerous birds, especially Galahs - they don't seem to move fast unfortunately.
Have run over the odd snake and blue tongue lizard, and possibly a Goanna.
Also hit a large red kangaroo boomer while out of Esperance, WA - luckily the work car had bull bars.
Feral and introduced animals have hit only the odd dove or pigeon and the occasional cane toad when in the NSW Northern Rivers, others such as feral cats, foxes and rabbits and Indian Mynah birds - have not hit.
My OH hit a small kangaroo/wallaby which caused minimal damage to a wheel arch liner. Me? nothing yet, touch wood. I'm more worried about stuff flying off the back of utes, is it beyond the wit of man to strap stuff down properly?
One thing that gets to me are the dogs in the back of open utes on the motorway secured by nothing more than a chord/lead. Can't believe the police let them get away with it
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