Trucker rolls big rig trying to miss animal

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  1. Baack

    Baack Road Train Member

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    http://www.amarillo.com/stories/021210/new_news12.shtml
     
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  3. Hardlyevr

    Hardlyevr Road Train Member

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    Always stay in your lane for any size critter, if you have trouble hitting one with a speeding bullet, what makes you think you will hit one with a 65mph truck?
     
  4. ironeagle2006

    ironeagle2006 Road Train Member

    My butt on my side or killing Cotton tail. Anyone what a bloody mess of peter cottontail on the roadway.
     
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  5. walleye

    walleye Road Train Member

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    What the hell???

    One of the first lessons I was taught in drivers education at the age of 15 was to NEVER swerve to miss an animal,..EVER!!!!!,....

    If there is going to be an insurance claim of any kind your better off to have part on the animal stuck to the grill than miss the animal and end up wrecked in the ditch,...This speaks primarily to deer in my part of the world,...
     
  6. blackw900

    blackw900 The Grandfather of Flatbed

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    I swerve for NOTHING!!! If it gets in front of me and I can't stop...It's gettin' hit!

    I will not make a quick manuver to miss soom animal or a fool in a four wheeler and take the risk of hitting someone that did nothing wrong!
     
  7. future driver

    future driver Light Load Member

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    Thumper caused awole lot of trouble
     
  8. RollinRupert

    RollinRupert Bobtail Member

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    Sounds like horse do do to me.
     
  9. lostNfound

    lostNfound Road Train Member

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    I'm calling B.S. ... swerving to miss a rabbit?
     
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  10. Peanut Butter

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    I have hit a rabbit or 2 with a peterbilt that had the big chrome bumper, nailed them wabbits in the head with that big bumper and you would hear THUMP, and mr jack rabbit was a goner. oh well better the rabbit then me lol.
     
  11. gearrat

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    wtf i know drivers that have hit deer instead of trying to swerve. its safer to hit the animal
     
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