Near miss with kangaroo last night

[ecar3483]

[tasfleur]

  

[chameleon54]

---

@cmcoins2000 wrote:

---

@julie-in-oz2 wrote:

Some Kangas can easily destroy your car if you hit them. I've seen some big ones.

---

Yes, and if one does - as my daughter found out.

It is an at fault claim as far as Insurance goes.

---

I,ve hit two roos in cars over the years. One destroyed the bonnet and windscreen and the other took the sump off the engine of a nine month old Mazda. The insurance company ( Alliance ) wrote it off and gave us a new car  

I run sheep in rough terrain and have had a huge angry buck Kangeroo who was "whooing the ladies", charge right up to the fence I was walking along in a very aggressive, threatening way. ( only a few metres away and very scary )

I had to politely explain to him that while the girls where beautiful they where not my type.....

[nicnacs_4u]

Son in law hit a deer whilst up in kinglake a few years ago..wrote his car off and he was very lucky to escape with no injuries..not easy to stop whilst you are overtaking a large semi and it comes at you on your left side..

[go-tazz]

---

@julie-in-oz2 wrote:

That would have been frightening Punch. We have been lucky enough to never hit one.

I have witnessed a car coming towards me hitting one, it was quite upsetting and they just drove on. I called the wildlife rescue team.

Poor Kangaroos and cars don't go well together. 

---

DC is where my OH came from,(they used to live near the bush and railway line).

I've had a few near misses but my OH has hit a couple around 30 years ago,(that's why there was a tire lever in

the boot as there was no rescue then,you just put it out of it's misery).