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[pigtin]

Just before dawn this morning the memsahib was carted to hospital with chest pains, I followed in the car and a few hundred yards from the hospital I hit a cat, there was no avoiding it as it dashed out directly in front of me. I couldn't drive on and possibly leave it dying in agony. The paramedics, after doing tests, had said the memsahib showed no signs of having anything serious wrong with her, but they were taking no risks. I had to make a decision, I stopped and searched for the cat, could find no trace of it and carried on to the hospital a few minutes later.
The memsahib was ok and I took her home after three hours. But what if...
Hope I am never in that position again. and still wonder about the cat.

[Rick]

I know what you mean, I levelled a moggie while driving erindoors' MX5 a few years ago. It ran out between parked cars, there was nowhere I could go. Needless to say there happened to be 3 or 4 teenage girls stood nearby, who started screaming, the cat by this time was looking very unwell on the road, and it was obvious that his number was up.

The most humane thing to do would probably have been to back up and finish the job off, but I didn't think the onlookers would agree, given the hysterics they were already in. Thankfully he expired quite quickly, but its not something I'd ever want to have happen again

R
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[Greeney in France]

I hit a cat a couple of months back, could not find it at all, they are very tenacious when injured and usually run from even the most severe of accidents, I had a cat crawl back home to my house after going missing for 2 weeks, it turned up with its back hips flattened and its front paws worn down to the bone where it had dragged itself back home. I took it to the vets thinking they would put him down but they relocated and plastered his legs up, within 2 weeks he was jumping back out the window
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[buzzy bee]

Hi

Never run over a cat touch wood, hit a badger when I was 16 on my moped, buckled the front wheel, that was scary!

Then a few years back, one of the cars a bit infront of me, hit an alsation, it was a big impact, but before I knew it I was running through the remains in the mini, the owner was histerical on the pavement, but what could anyone do. MNore recently a squashed an already dead/injured rabbit with a solid wheeled vehicle of 8ton, bit on a shame, but what can you do, it is unavoidable sometimes.

Pigtin, don't worry about the cat, it happens to most people at sometime, you stopped and had a look for it at least, more than most people would do. Glad to hear your other half is AOK.

Cheers

Dave

[peter scott]

[Scotty]

Good news about your other half.

There's a story in the press in the last few days where an owners cat was run over and he went looking for the culprit, breaking down neighbours doors with an axe!

Knock, KNOCK pigtin!

[pigtin]

Wern't me guv!

[Brian M]

A couple more gory stories involving animals.

When at Uni, I was in my friends Vitesse coming back from a weekend in Suffolk doing about 60mph behind another car that suddenly swerved to miss a fox in the road. The fox was stood in the road looking at us and we hit him. His snout went through the air inlet holes under the bumper and made a big hole in the radiator. We got the car towed home and had to do a kerb-side replacement of the rad, hosing bits of dead fox in the gutter.

In the early fifties my Dad's best friend was driving an open Sunbeam Talbot 90 across the New Forest when he hit a large deer that flew over the windscreen. Sadly both the deer and the driver were killed. His widow wanted my dad to have the car and get it repaired but he declined because of the memories.
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[Greeney in France]

When i first started as a sole trader carpenter I bought an HA bedford van I was driving to a job in west sussex when I hit a pidgeon, I didnt stop or think much about it until after I had done the job on the high street, I came back to the van to find the rear end of the bird sticking out the grill it had been there most of the day.
The only other time was a near miss with a cat running in front of me, I swerved spun and hit a tree writing off my Toyota Townace, breaking off the rear wheel completely in hindsight I shouldn't have swerved but I just saw a flash and reacted
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[pigtin]

Around 1960 I was driving my 1935 Vauxhall Tickford on a warm summer evening with the hood down. I was on my way to the Hunt Ball, (never hunted, hate it myself) driving past a roadside coppice a crow type bird flew out and hit the corner of the windscreen pillar My white shirt, dicky bow and suit were covered in blood and guano. I cleaned it up as best I could but had to spend most of the evening hiding in the darker recesses of the bar.

[old gto]

[buzzy bee]

Hi

Another moped story I remembered....

Quite scary at the time, but now it is quite comical.

I was riding down a little lane towards Betley and all of a suden WHACK! A phesant flies into my chest landing upside down on my knees, scatching and clawing at my chin, My first reaction was to push it off.

I got to the destination, and they asked where did you come off then??

I hadn't noticed I was covered in blood! hehe

Cheers

Dave

[bob2]

Only hit something once and I've no idea what it was, it happened on a saturday night whilst me and a cousin of mine were going out. We were driving in my clapped out clubman estate when all of a sudden something came out from betwen some trees and my cousin shouted watch out but twas too late cause I felt the bump just then and couldnt stop to see what happened because of the heavy traffic and no where to stop.
Well fast forward, we arrived at our destination and noticed the front plate missing. Not worrying too much deicded to go to the bar as already planned and on our way back see if we can find the plate somewhere where we hit that animal.
We parked in a side street and walked all the street up and down over there, whatever we had hit was now pert of the tarmac so to this day I dont know what it was. We didnt find the plate and decided to go back to the car and go home, whilst unlocking the door I saw something bright underneath the car and what should it be but my number plate!!
Was well pleased since a new one would have fetched Lm10 (about 20 sterlings).

[Roverron]

I remember driving my Rover a few years ago when I saw out of the corner of my eye something going past the passenger side window really closely. Luckily it wasn't an animal. It was the front wheel
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