I hit a rabbit while driving to work. What have you hit and how did you feel. Did you stop?

Question

That's the fifth animal including 2 cats, a squirrel, a chipmunk, and now the rabbit... oh and two birds. I stopped for both cats. I was driving highways speeds for the squirrel and the rabbit so i really couldn't stop. It's a terrible feeling.

ah nimble, that's over a twenty year period

Answer 1

I hit, or actually got hit by a moose up north a couple years ago. He was fine, walked away, I had to get towed home=(

Answer 2

I hit a small deer when I had my learner's permit. We didn't stop and later found out the deer died. Although, the Dodge Shadows, for being poorly designed mechanically, can take a hit like no other car I've driven.
I've also hit rabbits, squirrels, birds, and opossums (I used to live in a highly rural area, so I lost count). Never any family pets.
I once hit a bat, but didn't notice it until the next morning when I found it affixed to the front grill of my car. OH! And turtles. Turtles are horribly distressing animals to smoosh.

I feel awful every time I do it. I tend to scream when I hit the little animals. When I hit the deer, I had symptoms of PTSD. I was really upset and kept crying. I couldn't sleep. I refused to drive and I kept having flashbacks in slow motion of the deer's neck snapping. My parents kept me home from school the next day because I was so distraught. Its been 14 years since then and I've had some near misses with deer, but no additional collisions.
Bears and the big cats, mountain lions or cougars, I don't remember (and the occasional stray emu) are becoming more prevalent in this area. I fear every hitting one of those.

Answer 3

I have hit a turkey, racoon, a squirrel, and a bird. The turkey was flying and hit the driver side window. It scared the crap outta me. But I didn't feel so bad for it.
I ran over the huge raccoon when driving home at night. I felt bad.
I hit the squirrel driving home one time. It was a suicide mission on the squirrel's end so I didn't feel so bad.
I hit a bird and that is the one that made me feel horrible. It was singing and flying and flew right into my car and then there was just silence. I was waiting at red light. My car wasn't even moving. Those are my road pizza stories.

Answer 4

I guess I am maybe the only one here to have hit a person. It was when I was still in my teens, on March 5, 1961, to be precise and a couple of my friends and I were on the way to the Dairy Queen, when a seventiesh-year old man stepped out in front of me, as he was trying to cross the road from his motel to a restaurant. I can still see the image of him bouncing on my hood and to the ground. I still have no idea how fast I was driving. He and and his wife were returning to Michigan from Florida, and had stopped for the night. I just remember thinking, does that pretty much take care of me breaking all ten commandments? How did I feel? I was pretty much a basket case emotionally for several weeks, maybe months....panic hit me every time I saw a bystander standing to cross a street or road.

Oh yeah, I stopped.

Answer 5

There was a squirrel once but it went kersplush under the tires nothing could be done.
The very very worst thing I was witness to (as I was in the passenger seat) was a person being hit. Oh my that was horrid. It was a dark and stormy night and this old gal crossed the road where there were no lights and she was wearing a dark over coat to boot. She recovered but she was very banged up and my friend who hit her was so shaken up. We really didn't see her until she was on the hood of the car.

Answer 6

I once had a cat lunge in front of my car while driving at night.

I'm sure the poor thing was confused, but It was bizzare in that it seemed to be a voluntary action on the cat's part.

I hit my brakes and looked in the rear-view mirror to see the little guy tearing, hit and wounded into the woods.

I got out of the car, feeling miserably guilty, but the porr cat was nowhere to be seen.

I ached inside for hours afterward, and still feel a pang at this writing.

I hope to never hit another living thing again.

Answer 7

I have hit only one thing. A doe deer. let me tell you, automakers never consider that when aerodynamics come into play for a vehicle. the front end of my car was a total mess and the deer although hurt was not badly injured(what are they made of anyway,definitely something stronger than fiberglass). She lay on the road not moving and i felt really bad, because off to the left was her fawn. the tears started rolling, until momma deer stood up, looked at me like i was in the wrong place and pranced off into the woods with her baby. Although it was just an animal, my damaged car suddenly didn't matter too much.

Answer 8

Rabbits dig a hollow interior the floor to stay in. yet additionally they dig yet another passageway out. This reason being. If an Animal comes down the hollow after the Rabbit. Then the Rabbit will run to the subsequent hollow that he dug, that's a mild that tells him that's a way out, So even as a Rabbit See's a headlight of a vehicle. they seem to imagine that is yet another hollow to flee out of. And. nicely, you already know something else. Bob.

Answer 9

1) Hit a deer in college. Left a huge dent and broke a head light. Deer ran off.

2) ran over a squirrel. got out and looked at it. About puked.

3) ran over the neighbors cat. It would sleep under my car. Had to move....

Answer 10

i hit two squirrels ( yup, squirrel killing other squirrels) i felt so bad, i didnt get out cause there was no where to stop.
-- i pulled a work van over a snake that was on a gravel road and then i peeled out and cut his body in half. didn't feel bad at all!!
--and then a couple of weeks ago a bird ran into my windshield and landed in a yard. felt kinda bad, but got over it soon.

Answer 11

I hit a huge bird while driving in Australia...I think they called it a "Bustard" or something. I felt terrible as well! I stopped the van and got out to see if it was still alive, and it hopped to its feet, shook out its feathers and flew off! I was stunned...I mean I saw it like a half a second before impact and managed to slam on the brakes, but I was still going at a fair clip when I hit him. How he survived is beyond me.