I was hit by a bird or something on my way home from work today. There was a hell of a bang there is now a hefty dent in my passenger rear door. It looks like the paint is broken too and I think it will look a lot worse in the light.

F***!!$??**k

I was hit by a bird or something on my way home from work today. There was a hell of a bang there is now a hefty dent in my passenger rear door. It looks like the paint is broken too and I think it will look a lot worse in the light.

F***!!$??**k

Feel your pain :(

Probably not as much pain as the bird felt though!

True... I am guessing it was a bird, can't think what else it could have been.

In a side door though?  Were you drifting at the time?

So... you were involved in a hell of a bang with a bird??

 

No-one likes a bragger my friend.

I'll get me coat.

In a side door though? Were you drifting at the time?

Doesn't make sense to me either really. Was on a short straight and not drifting, at least not until the bang which totally distracted me!

Not unknown for deer to run out into the side of a vehicle either.

Not where I got hit. If I was a deer and lived there I would run out in to the traffic too!!

Not unknown for deer to run out into the side of a vehicle either.

 

My dog ran out of the park once and straight into the back end of a passing car, so it's quite possible I guess.

Never had heard of the side of a car being hit by an animal.

 

Pedestrians yes but not animals.

LOL you're trying to distinguish between (some) pedestrians and animals?

 

Think I might fail there with some of the beasts I've seen stumbling around on a Friday night :no:

Sorry to hear of your encounter Adam.

 

It could've been a pigeon. I had a pair fly into  a van I was driving, one hitting the windscreen the other into the side of the van. I saw them at the last minute as they cam from across the field next to the road. You've thought they'd see a hossing great van and change their flight paths, but not so.

 

On the bright side, whatever it was didn't go through the front. A crow makes a mess of a Merc's front end..seen that.

It actually turned out to be a branch. On Saturday night I bumped into a mate in the pub who recognised my car when following me and asked me if the great hulking branch that fell down at the exact time I drove past hit me! It must have been dislodged by a truck or bus and it picked the opprtune moment to drop...

Makes more sense as it hit the top of the door and that bit is probably the most proud from above.

As you say could have been a lot worse...

Years ago, had a large dog hit the side of the family car as we drove past on a country highway at around 100kph: we stopped and went back, offering to take the dog to the vet, but the owner kept telling us to "just go", so off we went... It wasn't until we got home and saw the damage that the mutt did that we realized she was probably trying to dodge paying for the repairs: whole rear doorskin needed replacing...

Also, in the last 8 months or so, I've had 2 kangaroos crash into my rear doors: the stupid jumping rats get startled when you approach and take off parallel to the car, but as you drive past, they zig when you assume they would zag, and collide with the rear half of your car... Thankfully neither hit was hard enough to cause any damage, but they make quite a noise...

I should mention that this is not a common issue over here, I just happen to be the lucky guy who works in the middle of the most dense wild kangaroo population on the planet...