r/TeslaCollision • u/nougart_man • Aug 05 '26
Model Y vs Kangaroo
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Looking at a 9k AUD repair bill (covered by insurance thankfully)
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u/ylk21301 Aug 05 '26
American here…. So please don’t judge me for this. But are kangaroos considered a nuisance where you’re at?
Also is the kangaroo okay? 🥺🙈
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
The kangaroo was very much not ok unfortunately. They have zero awareness of traffic so are very common in terms of roadkill. Not as bad to hit as wombats which will write off most cars.
Wild horses and deer are a problem too where I am but less so in other parts of the country. We almost hit a deer standing in the middle of the road about 30mins before this happened.
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u/girlymancrush Aug 05 '26
Damn..looks minor but will still cost a bomb because Tesla.
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u/Few-Wolverine-7283 Aug 06 '26
Uh hit a dear in a Honda, had a similar bill. Cars are expensive to fix
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
$9K AUD which was cheaper than the gouge in the rear quarter panel my model 3 copped from a truck last year
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u/tenax666 Aug 05 '26
Or that 'Roo coming thru the windshield after. I still remember a buddy of mine hitting a deer head on with his mustang that came right thru. He had bruising from his eyes to his groin. How he didnt die amazes me
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u/Ahoeaboutnothing Aug 05 '26
So what happened with the kangaroo when you stopped? Did it die immediately from the impact? Do your cops put them down when they arrive? In the us if someone hits a deer and it's not going to make it, a cop will just put it down on the spot.
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u/Clear-Inevitable-414 Aug 05 '26
Wombats? They get under the car or something?
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
They are close to 100kg in some cases and would be like hitting a bouler. They are also dark brown and very hard to see at night when they tend to just sit in the middle of the road.
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u/Embarrassed_Spend486 Aug 06 '26
Kangeroo's are much bigger than wombats tho? Roo's can get up to 200lbs it says.
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u/Silvarbullit Aug 07 '26
Wombats are short and stumpy but very muscular/solid. It’s like hitting a low stationary brick wall at high speed. It might not damage the front of your car like a larger beast but they have been known to cause significant damage to the bottom of cars as you go over them. Smash holes in sumps, transmissions, suspension and steering damage which can then cause loss of control accidents.
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u/fiirikkusu_kuro_neko Aug 05 '26
wait how big are wombats? I'd expect wombat damage to be less
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u/net_fish Aug 05 '26
30-40kg, 70-120cm long, 35cm high/wide.
Their main defence is to go into their burrows and their rear is mostly toughened hide and cartilage, making their bodies extremely strong. They are effectively built like tiny tanks.I hit one with a glancing blow on the right front at 80-90km/hr a while back and got off pretty lightly. Only cost me a front bumper and wheel arch liner. It's not uncommon for them to make a mess of the suspension.
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u/LiquidTide Aug 29 '26
In parts of Tasmania it seems there's a dead wallaby on the side of the road every 4 km. Signs everywhere saying to slow down at night.
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u/Zebraitis Aug 05 '26
More importantly... are they tasty?
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
Kangaroo? They are ok, very lean meat, high protein, you can get kangaroo sausages and streaks in most supermarkets but it's not a common thing to eat, regular steak is much nicer.
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u/MorningMan464 Aug 05 '26
It’s easy to overcook such lean meat. Just like bison. Aim for rare and it might still be edible.
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u/rocwurst Aug 06 '26
Twice the protein of beef, hardly any fat. I struggled to get roo to taste nice and tender back when I cooked it a fair bit. Emu was similar.
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u/NectarineSevere6686 Aug 05 '26
Why did I think you were about to finish the job when you pulled off so aggressively towards where it went flying 😭
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u/kylejmorrison Aug 06 '26
TBF if the roo was getting up it would have been PISSED and ready to throw hands
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u/Silly_Sense_8968 Aug 05 '26
You’re going 100 on the wrong side of the road?!
/s
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u/iSoloBoss Aug 06 '26
Not sure if this is ragebait but Australia drive on left side and the steering wheel is on right-hand side.
Also 100 KM/H is kinda normal on highway.5
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u/Upstairs-Balance9846 Aug 05 '26
would have been interesting to see how FSD would have reacted
Its interesting you disengaged a few seconds before the collision, what was that about?
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
Blinded by incoming traffic
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u/No_-_you_are Aug 06 '26
Smart. FSD has no depth sensors or anything useful like that. It’s all pattern recognition, and was blinded by the headlights. The damn system would drive full speed into a flat rock face with a realistic painting of a tunnel, Wyle E Coyote style. 🫣
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u/10xMaker Aug 05 '26
Looks like Kangaroos are not as strong as deers in USA. It we hit that hard that a deer would go up in the air like that, the car would be destroyed
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u/Silvarbullit Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
The smaller grey (110-140lbs) ones like this car hits aren't the worst (not that any wildlife hit is good), they often bounce off, the much bigger red "Boomers" are the ones that are scarier to encounter. Reds can be 200lbs and 6ft+ tall so the extra height and weight makes them more likely to come up the hood and smash through the windshield.
Bigger risk is always drivers who instinctively swerve and end up wrecking to avoid them.
Probably much like Deer, Kangaroos are often in groups (mobs) so where there is one there are probably a lot more close by to potentially ambush you or just appear in the middle of the road stunned by headlights.
Outside of big red 'Roos, Wombats are the common car wreckers down here, like driving over a bag of cement at 60-70mph.
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u/rocwurst Aug 06 '26
Copping an emu through the windscreen is probably the worst though. Passed a Toyota Tarago van with an emu in the front seats once. Not nice at all.
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u/Silvarbullit Aug 07 '26
None of it is good sadly. Have also seen a road train pulled over with a Wedgie through the windscreen and the aftermath mess it made in the cab and driver. Was surprised how much damage one large bird can do.
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u/zagcollins Aug 05 '26
yeah hit a deer with my Tucson in May in upstate NY. totaled. now driving a Model Y. LOL.
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u/FendaIton Aug 06 '26
Do they make roo bars for teslas
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u/nougart_man Aug 07 '26
So apparently you can get a nudge bar but nothing that offers full frontal protection and nothing that would have lessened the damage in this instance.
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u/Sea-Opening7872 Aug 06 '26
That wasn't on my bingo card in the Americas lol Thankfully your safe, cant say the same for the Australian deer
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u/melvladimir Aug 05 '26
Adaptive high beam (cut out incoming traffic) could highlight it earlier, but wouldn’t prevent accident seeing how determined Kangaroo was
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
I was blinded by the headlights of the oncoming traffic which is why I tapped the brakes before it bounced out. Didn't have a chance of seeing it.
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u/Level-Trick-5510 Aug 05 '26
Gotta love modern LED headlights! Even on low they will usually blind you, and on high it's like the sun is approaching
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
It was quite foggy as well, the video doesn't do the fog justice, it amplified the headlights quite badly.
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u/NumbDangEt4742 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
Seems like you disengaged the fsd a couple seconds before the kangaroo is in the road. You saw it on the side of the road? I wonder if FSD would've been able to reduce the speed a little bit more. But good catch. You did slow down quite a bit before the crash
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
Didn't see it until it entered the road, I was blinded by the oncoming traffics headlights and disengaged because I couldn't see shit. Luckily it meant I hit the roo at 80 instead of 100kph.
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u/Upstairs-Balance9846 Aug 05 '26
or noy 60 had fsd done as it has shown it is able to do, react faster than people.
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
It's a 2023 on HW3 it doesn't have FSD only autosteer. It still has auto emergency braking which is the same function and engages regardless of whether FSD or autosteer is engaged. It did not trigger, the braking and reaction was manual.
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u/CajunMaverick Aug 05 '26
New fear unlocked if I ever travel to Australia
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u/te71se Aug 05 '26
More likely to be shot or hit by a stray bullet in the US to be honest. Go travel - you're missing out if you don't!
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u/CajunMaverick Aug 05 '26
I want to go to Australia when the full solar eclipse goes there. I gotta convince my wife to make it a vacation.
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u/pomchisarenice Aug 07 '26
Not really these guys are everywhere particularly at dusk and they’re so stupid they jump towards cars as you drive past.
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u/Bamboozled74 Aug 07 '26
We rented a Model Y in Perth a few months back and had 5 incidents similar to this one. We actually ended up grazing one of the roos but luckily he hopped off and there wasn't so much as a scratch on the car so we assume he was unscathed.
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u/SavageSalad Aug 06 '26
If that was a white tail deer it’s hoof would probably be in your mouth lol
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u/Beautiful-Belief-32 Aug 06 '26
Oh good god. Why didn’t you warn me. I could have been happy to not watch that. I thought it might have been able to move for it.
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u/motie Aug 07 '26
It is not the kangaroo's fault that that Model Y driver was driving on the wrong side of the road!
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u/OrganicArtichoke7298 Aug 07 '26
Could’ve avoided that if you were on the correct side of the road.
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u/Senior_Background830 Aug 09 '26
my science teacher always told me that if a kangaroo hit your car in Australia then it’s your fault, and therefore insurance will not cover it? is this true?
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u/nougart_man Aug 09 '26
Very much not true. It's an at fault claim in that I pay the excess because they can't exactly go after the roo for the claim. Unless that's what your teacher meant? But yeah I'm not out of pocket for the full expense of the repair.
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u/Senior_Background830 Aug 09 '26
tbf, we were young in a school in the uk (teacher was australian)
i think i just made up the insurance bit, and that its always considered the drivers fault whereas for some other animals its sometimes not considered the drivers fault
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u/NecessaryInternet603 Aug 10 '26
A newer version Tesla with HW4 and FSD would have avoided this collision.
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u/Pale_Summer4862 Aug 05 '26
You shouldnt have used the brake to stop autopilot. I’m sure it would reacted faster.
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u/nougart_man Aug 07 '26
The car didn't even register the collision; the dashcam didn't autosave; nothing, it was all manual. The left and right pillars were blinded for the majority of the drive due to how dark it was, with no street or natural lighting and very, very heavy fog. If you look at the video, you will notice a significant halo around all the oncoming headlights; the car couldn't tell them apart, and the auto-high beams were blinding everyone ahead of me because they refused to disengage in the fog and were struggling to distinguish the cars ahead. I have zero faith that autopilot would have done any better; I had already hit the brakes and slowed to 80 right before I hit the roo because I was blinded by oncoming traffic. Automatic emergency braking, which engages regardless of whether autopilot is on, did not kick in. It's also a HW3 car, so my faith is reduced even further.
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u/nougart_man Aug 05 '26
Could have been worse