Posted on 04/22/2010 8:05:49 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
04/20/2010
Road Carnage
Wild Boar Crash Test Highlights Growing Accident Risk
Germany's ADAC automobile club has conducted crash tests on model wild boars to highlight the mounting risk of road accidents involving animals. It said 27 people died and 3,000 were injured last year in collisions with deer, boars, rabbits and wildcats. Hundreds of thousands of wild animals perish each year.
A total of 27 people died and 3,000 were injured in a quarter of a million collisions with wild animals on German roads in 2009, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of animals that perished in the process, ADAC, the largest autombile club in Europe, said on Tuesday.
It's a growing problem because the population of wild boars in particular is increasing in Germany and Europe.
ADAC conducted some a spectacular crash test to measure the impact of vehicle collisions with a horde of wild boar at various speeds. It refrained from using real wild boars for the purpose, resorting instead to life-size models of a sow and her two chubby piglets.
"The collision with a horde of wild boars at 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) needn't be life-threatening for the people inside the vehicle," ADAC said in a statement after conducting the test. "The front of the vehicle was damaged but the passenger cell remained stable."
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Exactly how big are the rabbits in Germany? Or did the journalist mistake the VW Rabbit for a fluffy bunny when sorting through what the other vehicle hit?
Easy Government solution #21,269 - eliminate the need for driving by requiring all persons to live where they work and only travel via the government operated rail system.
...whoa!...that’s about a 300lb feral hog...hit that baby at 50 and it’ll throw a compact car out of control...and btw, don’t think it’s just a European problem...feral herds are reproducing in this country at a rapid clip.
Or apply for a travel permit a la N. Korea.
This one looks quite big:
No, that is Easy Government solution #21,270
Anyhow, Germans love to be controlled. They feel void if they aren’t.:-)
“...Some of them(wild boars) even wandered into a bar in Eastern Seoul a few years ago...”
....Jay Leno’s gag writers would have a field day with that event!!
Hitting a hog with a car is like hitting a huge rock.
When Pigs Fly! It has occured.
Ooooooo, nice.. ;)
With the population explosion of wild feral hogs/pigs in N California, I’m surprised that we don’t hit more of them.
A younger wild pig hunter, we know, believes that the feral pigs are smarter than our dumb coastal deer and avoid the roads.
Our younger son inherited our OJ Simpson Bronco with the “emergency butchering kit” in the back for emergency removals of Bambis’s backstraps after they run into the side of the Bronco.
A friend has a similiar emergency kit in the back of his SUV. There are so many dumb deer in his neighborhood, he would like to see an “Olympic Backstrap” timed event.
My Trophy Wife hates Bambis. Years ago after our German Shorthaired Pointer went to dog heaven, we were invaded by deer. In a few weeks, they had killed 50 of her roses, (all of them).
Last August, she drove me to the Outpatient Surgery dept. for my knee surgery in her Lexus. As we went around a curve, a frequent visitor and her twin Bambis were in the road.
Trophy wife had that “Make my Day!” look in her eye, and I told her to brake and forget them because: her Lexus could be damaged, I had to get to the hosptial, and she didn’t have an emergency backstrap removal kit in the trunk of her Lexus. She gets angry when she recalls the twin Bambis and the doe being in her lane.
Actually, they are pretty darn big - much bigger than the neighborhood bunnies I see here in eastern US. Their deer, however, are much smaller than ours. At least that's what I remember from my years just north of the Black Forest.
LOL!!! As if the Germans drove that slow on the Autobahn. 80km/hr is more like their speed in a neighborhood. I'd like to see a crash pic at the typical Autobahn speed of 180km/hr. THAT would be more realistic.
That would put you somewhere around Karlsruhe, right?
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