Posted on 08/17/2025 3:53:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Thx TW, yes, it’s a split second decision. The immense additional mass of an elk or moose, and their higher center of gravity due to their longer legs, may justify a decision to avoid any collision at all by running off the road, if that’s possible.
The higher center of gravity of elk and moose may mean that the bumper and engine may not end up protecting you. This, because the bulk of the mass of the animal may, or might probably, instead end up rolling up onto the hood of the average sedan. With nothing to stop it, it will then crash into the windshield, and keep going straight into the cabin of the automobile (the passenger compartment or interior).
It’s so important to remain alert for anything that might happen along these lines. And yet so easy to be distracted as a driver, or allow your level of attentiveness to dip, especially on a long drive like the one you had. Good on you for avoiding catastrophe.
You should add horses to that list. Cows not so much.
The guys that work county EMS can list multiple horse calls and many of them end up as fatalities.
I suggested she may have some kind of deer karma......
Yeah...you don’t want THAT kind of Karma in your life. It gets extremely expensive. ;)
Rode my bike to work at sunrise this morning. I live in the mountains and always slow down around the turns and top of hills as the deer are always near by. Not so bad riding home in the afternoon.
Yep.
Sister, sister!
I grazed a small black bear on a mountain bike once. I was hauling down a dirt road and when I rounded a corner the bear was in the middle of the road. My back brake locked and skiding towards it the bear looked horrified and turned around and started to run. I barely grazed it and we were both fine.
We’ve only dealt with one.
Hopefully that’ll do it for us.
Eighteen is unthinkable. And, as you note, expensive.
I never asked about their deductible.
We need more moose-bites-sister stories and more bunnies with pancakes on their heads around here! :)
That’s what I’m thinking 😂
:-) Glad you and the bear were both fine.
Reminds me of this ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxw6H6DUTA
That’s a caribou. They only live where there aren’t many roads.
Ok but the general warning is there. We have to be alert when driving for anything unexpected to pop up. A moment of inattention can cost us our life.
Does that include Bigfoot?
Yes if one is in woodsy areas in the north and west. On the other hand Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland so that hazard is no longer around unless one is visiting over there.
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