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Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat!
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Dropping The Helicopter
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 00:46:01

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

Rhino wrote:
> "DawnK" <amsun1@lakebreeze.org> wrote in message
> news:0LRYe.2505$X6.358@fe05.lga...
>> <npardue@indiana.edu> wrote in message
>> news:1127452904.862126.307500@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>>> Too bad the first driver didn't call the police. What did Alex
>>> tell him?  Have Luka and Sam get there a little too late.   What if
>>> they'd been driving down the road, and saw him in that truck?  The
>>> crash
>>> was too realistic.  How come the airbags didn't go off?   Wouldn't the
>>> owner of the antelope be liable? That's assuming there was one. When do
>>>
>>> they get the car back?
>>>
>>> Ummm... antelope are wild animals. Nobody owns them. (And hitting deer
>>> and deerlike animals is VERY common in places like that, and does tend
>>> to wreck your car.) Good point about the airbags though. ANd shame on
>>> Sam for NOT realizing that she's falling asleep and just pulling over
>>> for a couple of hours (or at least getting some coffee at the next
>>> truck stop). She'll be no good to Alex if SHE'S dead in a ditch.
>>>
>>>
>>> Naomi
>>>
>> I live in WI.  Deer just happen.  I have had 2 car-deer accidents and yes
>> they do a number to your car, but when the car is a 1988 Chevy Celebrity
>> that you don't even like, you cheer!  LOL!
>>
> Years ago, one of my friends hit a German shepherd (dog) with his car and it
> nearly totaled his car. I would imagine that an antelope weighing several
> hundred pounds more than a dog would be roughly like hitting a brick wall
> and do a lot more damage than just bending the front end of the car. Was
> that your experience too? Just curious....
> 
> Rhino

The thing with deer-like animals is their long legs.  What they showed 
on the show was pretty realistic.  A car will generally hit the legs out 
from under the animal, and the rest of the body goes over the hood and 
into the windshield.  So, the damage is more spread out, and of course 
the amount of damage varies wildly; My folks hit a deer and critically 
wounded it in a pickup with nearly no damage to the vehicle, while a 
friend of mine had a deer hit *him* in a smaller car and the car was 
essentially totaled.

Often the animal will actually go through the windshield and injure 
and/or kill the driver and passenger.

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