Couple of rabbits and a pheasant with no real damage. The old man had a sun roof come of a new car on a transporter in front of him on the m'way. Glass shattered and he went through the debris. Sliced the radiator to pieces and didn't do much to improve the paint work.

Walked away from - The Earth! No joke; I got into a rear-wheel skid (dry road, and better tyres on rear), and the back end bit when the front was pointed at about 90deg to the road centreline up a bank. Car was full barrel-rolled and written off. I got a couple of scratches, and a bruise from the seat-belt tensioner.

Drove away from:-

1) A white-faced sheep which got its head in front of the bumper corner. No damage to car or my nerves. The sheep's neck wasn't so lucky.

2) Pheasants, on more than one occasion. These birds seem to have a death-wish!

Over the four weeks of my emergency services course i managed to hit two rabbits and a pheasant - no damage incurred. Its sheep you have to keep an eye on, they can behave very erratically around vehicles

Quack phooey duck that flew into the passenger door on my Impreza, left three dinks in the paintwork where it reserved direction and "pushed off". It hadn't seen the cyclist and zoomed off straight into my door.

Bloody useless pheasants and grouse. They're a real danger and big enough to break things.

Worst experience to date, hitting a small rabbit. In got me in the head (psychologically speaking...). I was in my old AX GT. A front wheel went right over him. I swear I felt every little bone crack through the steering wheel. I still only just suppress the shudder when thinking about it.

J.

Closest I've had was a magpie glancing off my crash helmet when on my bike, just saw it in time so ducked, would have had it full in the face if I hadn't. Scary!

About twenty years ago, my pal had a toyata tercel 4wd, and he hit a bolting horse. It's head went through the windsceen and deposited itself in his lap, and the body stove in the roof. Car was a write off, and so was the horse, natually enough. My mate was unhurt, apart from the nightmares (no pun intended).

3 stags....one landed on roof after jumping a deer fence, car was a write off, luckliy it was wasnt mine!! One was a full on head on and I had to walk 5 miles to find a game keeper to come out and put it down. One was ironically on the way to Shin game dealers at Invershin to pick up venison!! All very sad times when an animal is killed through no fault of its own :(

k

I ran over a badger (not on purpose) in my old Pug 405. It turned 90 degress and ran under the car, missing the front wheels only to have the rear squash him . The rear did rise a little once it went over the poor chap.

I tend not to bother slowing down anymore as I would rather not get into the mental habbit of avoidance. I think on country roads there is more chance of swerving and hitting either an oncoming car or something like a tree that will not budge!

Deers are tricky as they are going to make a mess of the car. But sod the car, think of your life. On a local road a young lad driving his mum's car swerved past a deer and ended up rolling many times in a field (well he said it was a deer...)

lots of rabbits, a hare that damage the front valance, a badger did likewise but worse!. Regularly have deer cross in front of me. mate once hit a cow and wrote of his mini (and the cow sadly)

Pheasants make "bird brain" seem intelligent!

Riding along a narrow straight country lane on my KMX trail bike many years ago. Noticed 2 pheasants at the roadside on the left.

Backed off

Doing around 30mph when they both took off straight into my path.

One came up from the left between my left arm and the tank and whacked me on the right shoulder. Threw me off line but managed to stay up!

Pheasant was dazed but managed to run off before I could stop and go back to wring its neck!

May not be the biggest thing to hit but a bumble bee on the visor at 70mph don't half make your ears ring!!

I've run over a fox before on a pitch black country road, although it went under my wheels and did no damage to my bodywork. It lived too, as by the time I'd stopped and gone back there was no sign of it. Most annoying thing I've hit? A pigeon, cracked my honeycomb grill, feathers everywhere, was picking the things out for days...

Pheasants make "bird brain" seem intelligent!

Riding along a narrow straight country lane on my KMX trail bike many years ago. Noticed 2 pheasants at the roadside on the left.

Backed off

Doing around 30mph when they both took off straight into my path.

One came up from the left between my left arm and the tank and whacked me on the right shoulder. Threw me off line but managed to stay up!

Pheasant was dazed but managed to run off before I could stop and go back to wring its neck!

May not be the biggest thing to hit but a bumble bee on the visor at 70mph don't half make your ears ring!!

That was pretty much what happened with one of mine, except that I was doing 70, and the truck I was overtaking was braking from 56 to 50. Accordingly, I blame the accident on the greed scamera he was braking for!

Hit a badger in a Mini Cooper (R56) at 30 mph, took out Foglamp broke bumper, bent wing and bonnet a bit, broke headlight mount. £650 worth of damage. The badger ran off never to be seen again, only proof that it was a badger was some fur stuck in the cracks in the bumper.