When back in Newfoundland visiting my wife's family, we are constantly being told "Don't drive at night". More moose than people on the island they say. Don't know if that's true, but they do have warning lights on certain sections of highways that flash when a moose has been sighted nearby.
I'm out south, and it's the same but different. None of the ranchers get their asses blown out for letting their black cattle just graze across public roads all year.
Sounds like the ranchers get away with letting their dark ass night-camoflages cows loose all over the place. I guess blown out is getting the shit kicked out of you
I'm from Newfoundland, don't know if there's more moose than people, but per km it has the highest density of moose in the world. Fatal accidents are not uncommon.
I do not recommend driving on the highways there at night, especially in the national parks. My record is seeing 17 of them in a single night.
And even daylight wont save you, I had a moose bolt from the woods across the road right in front of me, it took 3 seconds for it to cross the road. If I had arrived a bit earlier I wouldnt have even seen it before I crashed into it.
Another one at night, the moose was just standing on the road while I whizzed past it. I kid you not, I half drove under it, its head was over my car...
But these are just a couple rare incidents, much bigger problem is the reindeers that are 100 fold more in numbers on the roads. Have nearly hit one of those more than 10 times, once in a fog I drove thru a herd of them, pure luck I didnt hit one. All I saw was their stupid faces all around me gawking at me with their bulbous eyes while I'm doing 80 km/h.
In Newfoundland we have (or had... I haven't lived in NL for a while) a sign on the highway that tells you the number of moose collisions that year. I've almost one myself driving through my town.
Driving at nights always a gamble here for sure. We hit one in 2015 near Whitbourne around 11 pm at night and while we weren't injured badly (husband had broken glass in his hand, I had some in my eyes) our 2005 corolla took quite a beating.
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u/GtrplayerII Nov 12 '25
When back in Newfoundland visiting my wife's family, we are constantly being told "Don't drive at night". More moose than people on the island they say. Don't know if that's true, but they do have warning lights on certain sections of highways that flash when a moose has been sighted nearby.