The dangers of nightime driving in the country.......
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The dangers of nightime driving in the country.......
My wife and I were driving up to Suffolk late on Friday night to visit my mum for the weekend on a particularly dark and slightly twisty bit of the A12…..
Rounded a blind bend at about 40 only to be confronted with a swan flapping around in the middle of the road 8O . Sods law - as we came round the corner it decided to make a last bid for the safety of the verge and launched itself right into the path of the Mk1 :cry:
I jammed on the anchors but there was no way I was going to avoid it and we ended up running right over it. I managed to pull onto the verge a 100 yards or so down the road, and thankfully no one went into the back of me, but it was a very scary and unsettling experience. Luckily another driver, (golf driver incidentally), stopped and together we went back to check whether the swan had been killed or not. It had been killed outright, although we still had to move it off the road and onto the verge (not something I would care to have to do again anytime soon).
Put a bit of a downer on the weekend, and I also have damage to the front of the Mk1 as well….. just goes to show that the strangest things can happen when you are least expecting it.
Chris
ex '83 Mk1 Golf GTi Campaign owner and missing it already!
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Cheers,
Drew.
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I hit a cat in the lanes once. it was late at night and I was going home, pushing 60 through the lanes (I know them like the back of my hand…), came round a corner and saw a flash of yellow eyes on the side of the road - as you say, sods law, it tried to cross in front of me! I spun around and went back, though it had gone… gave me an awful feeling of guilt, even though there was nothing I could have done as it ran in front of me :dontknow:
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I guess maybe some things happen for a reason though - only a mile further down the road we came accross a bad accident that the police had obviously only just arrived at. A car was flipped over on one side of the road and there was still someone trapped inside by the looks of things :cry: . I can't help thinking that if we hadn't had the incident with the swan and had been on that stretch of road 10-15 mins earlier we might have been unlucky enough to be at virtually that same spot where the overturned car was.
Like I say, not the best journey I have ever had!!!!
Chris
ex '83 Mk1 Golf GTi Campaign owner and missing it already!
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Chris
ex '83 Mk1 Golf GTi Campaign owner and missing it already!
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Surprised me really, didn't think I'd feel anything in a Swedish Brick but it made a hell of a bang. Obviously no damage! to the car that is.
I once saw a bunny hanging down from it's head which was stuck in a grill. Sad, but funny.
Peter.
1980 1600 GTI, daily driver.
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The worst was the bird on the motorway - Hit the windscreen right at the rear view mirror - made an almighty bang - didn't break the windscreen but pushed it back enough to bend the mirror stem 8O Miade a right old mess on the screen and roof - think the bird totally disntegrated :double ick:
Glad you were alright - cos anything that could make it through the windscreen is likely to be fatal.
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I once hit a muntjack at about 70mph, ripped the deer to pieces but also took the front end off my car!!
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1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
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As Rich says I think it would have been a different story if it had actually managed to take off before we hit it. It wasn't until I went back to move it off the road that I realised how damn heavy the thing was . It was a full grown adult and probably weighed as much as a small dog.
Gotta get the car up on the ramp this week to finally sort the exhaust blow - kinda hoping I won't be scraping bits of swan off the underside…….. :?
Cheers,
Chris
ex '83 Mk1 Golf GTi Campaign owner and missing it already!
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…a combined harvester!!
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Steve_Matthews said
once in an Escort he hit a dear
Not one of the blue rinse brigade I hope? :wink:
Cheers,
Drew.
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At least it was killed instantly…
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i hit a bird on the A34 last week……. i was doing a little over the speed limit and it smacked into the windscreen, blood and feathers everywhere, then slithered down and fell off, in typical girly style i stopped in next layby and threw up, and i'm sure that looked attractive……… but a very very nice man from the AA who was also in laybe washed my windscreen off for me………… the bonus of being blonde lol
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Mandy
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I used to own a mk1 - well I've had 2 actually - YDU 720X & SMU 420Y. Currently I drive an 98 Scotia White Mitsubishi Evolution V RS…. fancy getting another mk1 someday
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