What's the biggest thing you've hit?!

Captain Slow IRL

It was a cat for me, coming home one night and the little sh*t came out of the blue! It was some thump off the bumper and it did a fair bit of damage to a fog light and it's bracket.

I'm seeing a lot of badgers along the road - I wonder how much damage would they do, they are pretty big!

MugMugs

Hit a pheasant once..... Little prick had the last laugh. Cost me a new lens on the Passat.

rameire

the ditch

Hide behind the post

Hit a JCB.....T boned the thing....you know those bright yellow things with flashing lights...yep hit that!!!!!

Autosport

JCB hit me a few years back and it still gives me nightmares Hit a few foxes in my time and took the head off one , not nice at all

ba_barabus

A Ford Ka

toastedpickles

A hoorin pothole, ruined me windscreen -shakes fist-

Got a slap off a truck once.

Spun off a sliproad another time and hit the barrier with both the front and back of the car, frightening and thought the car was mush, only a little scratch on the rear number plate plinth/surround and a burst front tyre.

Gave a Garda a few slaps, he was 6 foot odd.

JerCotter7

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

It was a cat for me, coming home one night and the little sh*t came out of the blue! It was some thump off the bumper and it did a fair bit of damage to a fog light and it's bracket.

I'm seeing a lot of badgers along the road - I wonder how much damage would they do, they are pretty big!

Badgers do a lot of damage. Biggest thing I hit was a signpost.

DylanII

A wall - there was a wall infront of a parking spot, I drove too far forward and hit it.

I also drove into a pillar on my parents garden - I dont know how I managed that one, the gates are very wide and I hit the pillar right in the centre of my car - my mum just had a new wall and pillars built so she nearly murdered me.

CiniO

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

It was a cat for me, coming home one night and the little sh*t came out of the blue! It was some thump off the bumper and it did a fair bit of damage to a fog light and it's bracket.

I'm seeing a lot of badgers along the road - I wonder how much damage would they do, they are pretty big!

For me cat as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcrTpYXkk-Q

No damage though.
Cat walked away as well, but I'm not sure if he was allrite.

afro man

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

It was a cat for me, coming home one night and the little sh*t came out of the blue! It was some thump off the bumper and it did a fair bit of damage to a fog light and it's bracket.

I'm seeing a lot of badgers along the road - I wonder how much damage would they do, they are pretty big!

hit a badger a few years back it went in under front of car not much of a bang looked back and saw him run away so assumed everything drove a mile home and parked up and wife says were is all the water coming from ,, radiator busted ..:mad:

Not me, but my brother hit a horse. Jumped out on the road in front of him. He wasn't hurt himself but the car, a VW Bora, was wrecked. Must have been frightening.

ShamoBuc

She was about 16 stone....good night though. Strange but true.

bazz26

Hit a young pheasant once, it flew out of a ditch right across the front of me. It hit my front fog light and pushed in the surrounding mesh in the bumper. Luckily I was able to pop it back into place by parking the front wheel up on a kerb and get at it from underneath with a rubber mallet. Not so lucky for the pheasant though, all I seen was a ploom of feathers in my rear view mirror.

Supergurrier

Cat at like 3am when i went to my local 24h station for some peps+smokesi (only had ST afew days and was on a week off so it was just an excuse to go for a drive really)

Noticed as i left the lane where i live there were lots of cats about as it was a clear/dry night in July and halfway to the station a cat runs out about 100m infront of me at a fair auld lick, he then freezes in the middle of the road and i am left with 2 options.

1. Slow down as much as possible within safety and maintain my straight line so he has a chance to move.
2. Take evasive action (into a ditch/wall/someones garden/living room) and risk him running in that direction and getting run over anyway.

Anyway i chose the first option and needless to say 235/35/R19 Nankang versus Cat there is only one winner, got out and checked, no collar he was stone dead. What can ya do atleast car wasn't damaged as tyre hit him straight on.

Drummerboy08

I hit a big tree once...... Nearly 11k in damage to the car.

pred racer

A sheep (on the way home from the pub)
A tractor(on the way home from the pub)
A tree stump (yes you guessed it but it was a work rental so it doesn't count)

Anyone getting the moral of this story yet;)

All back when I was young and foolish:o

pred racer

pred racer wrote: »

A sheep (on the way home from the pub)
A tractor(on the way home from the pub)
A tree stump (yes you guessed it but it was a work rental so it doesn't count)

Anyone getting the moral of this story yet;)

Don't pick you to be the designated driver?

Ardennes1944

A stag/deer yoke at 130kph on the M7 at 4am on the way back from Belfast. Well...i rolled over it anyway. Needless to say the Yaris that hit it a few seconds earlier was in bits! :eek:

IrishLad90

A few seagulls flew across my windscreen, feathers everywere, the aulwans standing outside the shop wernt impressed.

cena

I hit a fox a number of years back. only put in a new fan that week and had to replace it again.

My mother own the car before me and she crashed into a car

Shamozzle

A train.

True story.

Ken.

A huge 200 year old chestnut tree. Walked away but car was a write off.

MetzgerMeister

An E46 325i

EDIT:

Needs sound to make it epic :pac:

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

a fox at 140 KPH little sh,ite paid the price

sheep which was already on the road dead

Senna

The brother hit a sheep at about 50mph, the sheep got up and ran away, and there wasn't a mark on the car

SV

Reversed into a pretty big skip once?
hit a wall sideways too, I'd say the wall was a lot bigger than the skip. Completely wrote the car off.


Other than that, hit a crow once, biggest living thing I've hit.

elvis99

Hit a wild goat in Galway county one night, he took my wing mirror and left a small dent on my wing, could have ended a lot worse

Dord

The road.

Redriddick

Driving a jeep with an ifor williams trailer across railway track and train came around the corner and ploughed me out of it.Jeep=rightoff
Trailer= 200 yards down the line unrecognisable.
Me=Bloody nose!!!

Lucky to be alive!

S28382

I havent hit anything. :cool: :pac:

It BeeMee

Moving target - a badger
Fixed target - a tree

Bus tried to kill me before, managed to avoid that - how, I don't know.
Same for a cat running across the road at me one night.
Of course then I go and mangle the side of my car against a fixed object, namely the side of a driveway :pac:

T-Maxx

The missus.

Only till she started hitting back.

Foxhole Norman

T-Boned a Suzuki Jimny on a roundabout.

dh0011

a rat once and a lorry spare wheel which fell off the lorry and landed in the road in front of me

vandriver

I once ran over a small white dog,thinking it was a plastic bag.I do now wear glasses.
I was hit by a fully laden gravel truck,which was a bit alarming.

Mr Simpson

I've actually never hit anything. A car nearly hit me on the bike the other day, that wouldn't have been nice

gouche

Only living thing I noticed was a bird - little backstart flew straight into windscreen. Got some fright - came out of nowhere.

More embarrassingly I also reversed straight into a telephone pole - stone sober. Didn't even see it. In my defense I was driving a Berlingo with just side mirrors :P

keithclancy

Was doing around 200km/h down the Autobahn and a Bird flew into the top of the windscreen.

It all happened so fast I didn't realise what had happened until I saw feathers in the rear view mirror.

Poor little bugger exploded, there was guts all over the roof, everyone was looking at the triangle of bird bits on the roof while driving into work.

DarkJager

Tailspinned off a roundabout once, hit a kerb sideways and ended up against construction fencing with the car on its side. The fence was the only thing that stopped it rolling over. Still 6k worth of damage.

Haven't hit any large animals. Mainly wild rabbits (they're like tiny speed bumps) and one time managed to embed 2 crows head first through the heater grill on the front of the car. They looked like some kind of gothic hood ornament when I spotted them

Jimdagym

I hit a bus stop while reversing on the n11 once...

KTRIC

The back of a taxi on my old bike, bloody sore

ottostreet

A ditch (wrote the car off)

and a pillar in a car park a few days ago, scratched the side of my car gadumnit.

It'll polish out though.

dgt

I once reversed into my house. Clever me....

On the roads recently I hit a badger, no mark on the car another time I hit a hare, blew the bumper to bits :eek:

vandriver

I also reversed into a Garda motorbike .

Mr Simpson

vandriver wrote: »

I also reversed into a Garda motorbike .

I'd say that ended well...

Ded_Zebra

I have never hit anything properly, but I did reverse into a golf gti recently

I have had some spectacular close calls with a few animals and a couple of cars but thanks to my amazing car control I always managed to miss :pac::pac:

BUBBLE WRAP

Well, I came round a bend to fast an the car went sideways, only the bumper was cracked as it clipped the wall and brought the car to a stop. Thank god. That's about it.

who the fug

rameire wrote: »

the ditch

Snap, but I managed to connect with the ditch on side, reboud, do a 360 and hit the other one.

Very artistic