Poor woman and her newly wed husband. She was really smart, accomplished and beautiful. Life sure can throw you curveballs.
Poor woman and her newly wed husband. She was really smart, accomplished and beautiful. Life sure can throw you curveballs.
I hear there are a lot of deaths in Alaska from moose going through windshields.
Rest In Peace, Kseniya.
Lost a friend post-high school when she hit a cow in the road and had the same awful outcome. Her kids in the back seat were OK, but how horrible was that for them to have to live with!?
We can fool ourselves all we want; Nature Always Wins. Always.
I imagine the animal was more what we would call a moose. They don’t have elk like ours in Russia.
How sad! Deer jump out a lot in my neck of the woods in a split second and it’s scary as hell on a dark road.
An “elk” in Europe is what we call a “moose” in North America.
Our North American “elk” are smaller animals not present in Europe.
Or something like that.
It’s very confusing and I could be wrong.
A friend’s cousin was killed when his car hit a camel while driving on a rural Saudi Arabian highway.
It’s tragic when your favorite models are discontinued.
I’ve always driven motorcycles.... there are lots of things to worry about on a bike but where I go, deer are at the top of the list.
Many moons ago while on the way to work one morning I watched a large Bambi come running out of a neighborhood that has big walls to keep the traffic noise away from the houses at a road intersecting the main road and it made it across the 3 lanes of opposing traffic, the median and the first lane on our side and then tried to leap over a full sized truck and it didn’t come out the other side but crashed through the front windshield and then the back windshield landing in the truck bed. Traffic was moving at 65-70 mph. I was not in a position to stop and help without getting rear ended so I don’t know what happened but I’m going to say it probably wasn’t good.
If at highway speeds you perceive that you can’t avoid hitting the beast, turn straight into it.
Protect yourself and your passengers with all that heavy, momentum absorbing hardware between you and the center of your front bumper.
I THOUGHT “MISS XXXXX” CONTESTANTS WERE SINGLE.
Happened to my mother and uncle years ago in Newfoundland. He had picked mom up at the airport and they were driving about 90 minutes to their home. It was late at night and a giant moose jumped out in front of the car. Fortunately they both survived, with minor injuries, although the car was totaled.
RIP, dear Lady.
In Europe, what they call “elk” is actually what we call “moose.”
I’ve hit deer on 2 separate occasions in my younger years.
Destroyed the first car, and about $2500 damage/repair on the second.
Oh, rest in peace for her. Sad to see her leave us so soon.
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.