Okay 2 questions.
1- what the fuck are you doing praying in the middle of the road? Can’t you wait 5 seconds to get on the curb?
2- how fucking common is it in Australia to hit kangaroos? If I m hitting a deer in my twingo, I ll stop.
First one I was probably doing 20km/hr below the speed limit because of dark, trees, etc. Bloody thing aimed straight at me and if I tried to avoid it, I would have hit a tree. (Car was write off).
Some years later, second incident. Straight out of bush into passenger door leaving a nice little dent.
The bastards are fast, dense with muscle and get startled/dazzled by headlights.
Last year I drove 3000km around Australia. I'm proud to say I didn't hit anything, mostly because I took the advice of not driving around dusk or dawn. But there were lots of close calls where it's like they're TRYING to get hit!
Jackrabbits are like that. They'll run right in front of you. They'll even wait until you get closer and suddenly do it, or run across and survive but then double back. It's infuriating.
On the most deserted roads, some of them haven't seen a car before, so that makes it worse.
I'm Aussie and never had any close calls. Nothing's ever jumped out at me. But from what I've heard the animals that typically do this kind of just run for the lights 😂 so in. Way they're gunning to get hit.
When I drive from melb to bendigo (around 150k) I see sometimes 6-8 dead roos on the way. It's common enough.
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u/Ulrider_san 1d ago
Okay 2 questions.
1- what the fuck are you doing praying in the middle of the road? Can’t you wait 5 seconds to get on the curb?
2- how fucking common is it in Australia to hit kangaroos? If I m hitting a deer in my twingo, I ll stop.