Monday, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:52
It Is only my opinion that the people that go speeding past you on country roads just on dusk are generally the same people that call you slow coach and have never hit anything on a country road' My wife used to be one of those people, who love to get
home in one hell of a hurry. We would leave
Geraldton at about 4.00pm and head down the track refuel at the S bend and she would have the first drive, this particular trip
home to
Perth we were going to stop off at
Jurien Bay and see her sister so we turn off the brand onto the Jurien road this is the turn off after
Dongara, cross the railway line and we are increasing speed we are now doing the 110 speed limit I say slow down you will hit a roo at this time of night, no response is the firm reply, next I say roo on the left 250 meters so what do we do we speed up don't we we are now doing 125klm/p/hr roo hops out to the edge of the road, slow down says I, we are now doing 130. roo is now 10mters in front I feel the surge in acceleration roo hops onto road, bang, wife keeps driving no stop to
check on animal no stop to
check for vehicle damage, just keep driving after four or five k's I say are you going to stop so I can
check the damage so we pull over. left hand side all bashed in bonnet twisted and dented but nothing leaking that I could see, so we go to Jurien and stay over night. That was in a Mitsubishi Magna no Bull bar no protection what so ever. We no longer travel at that time of night and if we absolutely have too it is with more respect for wild life, the reason for the accident that could have been avoided, I was telling her how to drive, that was twenty years ago. LOL. by the way we now have bull bars on both of our vehicles mainly ally as I feel that if I do happen to hit something there is some give and that may just be enough to save some poor unfortunate animals life, instead of being sent to animal
heaven as my grand daughter calls it. Just some information to justify, why I use ally Bars. I hope you enjoyed the tale
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