Kangaroos

[castellan]

Originally Posted by R12RT

The drive faster bit makes me think of the number of times on country roads you will see skid marks. At the end of the skid marks is a pile of btoken glass and plastic with a dead 'roo off to the side.

It is quite likely that had the dtiver accelerated instead of braking the 'roo would have passed harmlessly behind the vehicle.

When driving in NZ I could not get the hang of not being ready for a roo, it just becomes a natural reaction being on the ball, it's something like if someone was to punch you in the face, if your are ready for it you react instantly to avoid, so in a car it's the same type of thing, you swerve brake or gun it and you miss them or just clip them. keep your eyes open constantly look way up the road and to the side and where you can't judge to see you slow down enough so you can, the same with driving at night you only drive with in what you can see and react to, coming over a rise slow down, the big ones seem to stand just on the top of a rise and don't move.
If in doubt react directly, I know the wife does not like it, as I hit the brake she just fly's forward like a limp doll and then complains, if she did not have seat belts she would go straight through the windscreen just on the brakes alone and seen blokes with there head down at there knees, so much for seat belts, I say a harness is better than front air bags as not every crash is just one hit, like you could hit a roo and then hit a tree.

My mum had one big bastard that would not move and she stoped right in front of it, I said just run the bastard down, we had a bull bar on the HX Holden but she would not.
Another day it was stomping about the front of the house, when I was on the phone to her and said blow it away, them big ones think they own the area and can attack you, never trust them.