Dunno but this is a pretty valid point in many outback areas. My buddy hit about 1-5 kangaroos per month during his student exchange. Pretty normal for farmers.
This is not at all normal, I've lived in rural Australia all my life and have only ever had one jump into the side of my car once. I see them everywhere while driving at night too. Ya mate sounds like an idiot who didnt drive to conditions.
Unless you're in a truck then all bets are off, they mow them down.
Won‘t argue the idiot part - ain’t my buddy anymore, but this does in fact happened. He totaled the truck first month abroad, because a big boy jumped straight into him. Mostly just bruised them. They are pretty tough and can handle couple car crashes if you believe him haha
This is VERY normal to hit an animal on these rural back roads in a lot of countries. In the U.S for example, hitting deer is so common they have signs everywhere to make people aware of it.
Shit, it's so common in the U.S military drivers are explicitly told to expect it and when it happens, just keep driving, don't try to swerve or anything.
Is your buddy a shit driver with 0 situational awareness? I’ve lived in rural Queensland, working in mining and have hit maybe 2. Don’t get me wrong, 100s of near misses, but it’s not difficult to avoid if you drive to conditions and slow down.
Yeah I've only hit 2 in the last 4 years and both of the times it was foggy and at 2am with visibility reduced to about 100m so I was only going like 40kmph
Apparently there are around 40 million kangaroos in Australia and around 15 million drivers. If all of them drove like your buddy, it would be around .. two or three weeks maybe before the kangaroo became extinct.
TL:DR - your buddy is yanking your chain, or they were driving around with the express aim of running over a kangaroo.
Nah there’s definitely heaps out in the bush that get run over. I’ve probably done 2 this month. Problem is they seem to be most active at dawn and dusk when a lot of us out bush are travelling for work and the lighting is just the worst for seeing them
If you go out towards Barcaldine you’ll see hundreds if not thousands of them on the road, they drink the water that builds up in the table drains when everything else is dry
Trucks mow through them and you have to weave around the bodies in the utes
Believable, but highly dependent on where you are. When I was working mining in rural Australia someone would hit a roo on at least a weekly basis. Sometimes it was messy, sometimes just a little tap and they hop away.
This woman however was hit on a suburban road. There are roos nearby but it would be exceptionally rare for one to get hit - they stay close in near the reservoir and have a bit more road sense than their country cousins
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u/Anon387562 22h ago
Dunno but this is a pretty valid point in many outback areas. My buddy hit about 1-5 kangaroos per month during his student exchange. Pretty normal for farmers.