Killed On Roads.

[William51]

Here in rural Norfolk there are a lot of wild animals who have died on the roads. Over the years i have hit pheasants. and last year i reported to the council a dead Roe deer on a road. What other stories do Abers. have?.

[tiggerblue10]

I was in the passenger seat when my mum ran over a pigeon. I was so upset even though I'm not keen on the pesky things.

[Prudie]

Last year I hit a squirrel and I was upset for the rest of the day. See a lot of roadkill round me in Dorset, especially deer. I always feel bad.

[Spicerack]

When I was little we had to scrape dead birds off the road to make soup with.
Then there'd always be a scrap over the legs.
Still, as they say, there's allers someone worse off.

[Spicerack]

Have you tried glasses, Prudie?

[Patsy33]

There seems to be a lot of young types of deer about the countryside. Seeing lots dead on side of roads. We have a lot not far from where I live. They are quite stupid, they just run from field onto road causing accidents. Sad really..

[sandyRoe]

The saddest road kill are cats. Most will be loved by someone and often their owners will never know why their pet disappeared.

[barry1010]

I slow down on the bends on the country roads as I very nearly hit a horse and rider some years ago - you just never know what's going to be there.
Had deer jump out in front of me a few times on Cannock Chase but fortunately never hit them.
See lots of dead badgers, hedgehogs and pheasants.

[mushroom25]

not on the roads -

some years ago a Eurostar (driven by a British driver) hit a deer somewhere near Lille, and disabled the train. he had to report this to the French signaller and although he had a reasonable grasp of train/railway French, he didn't know the French word for "deer". so he improvised and described it as a "cow with a pantograph".

[Ken4155]

When i was about 7 or 8, my dad had come home from work for his dinner. While he was in the house, a cat got on top of the front wheel of his van (for warmth?) and when he set off back to work, he didn't see it. The cat didn't wake when he switched the ignition on and i recall seeing the cat slide off, then under the wheel of the van. It then ran across the street, laid on it's back in the gutter and peed for absolutely ages before dying. Weird what we recall from childhood.

[Milo2]

We have a park quite near and it’s home to lots of squirrels so unfortunately we do see some on the road running alongside the park that have been run over.

[mushroom25]

one summer evening a friend was riding his motor bike through the new forest when he winged a rabbit. after a mile or so conscience got the better of him and he went back to see what he'd done. there was the rabbit, alive, but only just and clearly wasn't going to survive. so he went to give it a misery-ending kick, but instead he missed and his shoe flew off into the woods. it was getting dark by this time so he started the bike and turned it so the headlight was pointing into the woods, and began grubbing through the leaf litter for his shoe. it was at this point that the police took an interest.......

[ToraToraTora]

my first job in IT was for Dorset County Council, I used to get a lift each day from a Chinese guy in a triumph spitfire, one day on the way home a pheasant at the side of the road took off as we went by and it thumped into the side of the car and knocked itself out. We stopped, he got out wrung it's neck and slung it in the boot and said "that's dinner"!

[Maydup]

I’m in rural Norfolk too and having dodged them for so many years, a deer ran into the side of my car last month. It lived to tell the tale and I spent £500 plus 3 weeks of to and fro with the garage fixing the blooming car!

[Spicerack]

I've managed to avoid killing anything, even flies.

[Hopkirk]

One way of looking at it is that the more you see dead by the road, the healthier the population must be.

[rockyracoon]

I drive through Epping Forest everyday and there’s always roadkill of some description at the side of the road. The worst is the deers. They are so majestic as well as being thick as a brick. I’ve never hit one myself but an old neighbour hit a male and the alters went through the windscreen trapping her in the car. Very traumatised she was.

[Prudie]

Ken's post played on my mind all the rest of the day as when about 7 my father ran over a kitten that had been sitting over the wheel of our car in same circumstances. I have never forgotten watching it die. Really horrible.