On early Sunday morning at about 1 am I was driving homewards along the local by-pass.
Suddenly a badger ran across the road just in front of the car and I slammed on the brakes ... eeek ... saw him disappear so close to the front bonnet of the car that he was out of view ... I am pretty certain that I didn't hit him but it was a very, very, near miss.
I didn't see anything in the rear mirrors except a cop car that overtook me shortly after. He must have seen my emergency stop.
Wildlife! One dead badger is one roadkill too many. I would have felt so guilty if I had harmed the poor creature. Probably did scare it somewhat. I hope it did learn something about road traffic.
[NB The camera at the top of the windscreen that is supposed to react to pedestrians trying to cross missed seeing the badger altogether so on this occasion the automatic collision avoidance/mitigation system wasn't triggered.]
Suddenly a badger ran across the road just in front of the car and I slammed on the brakes ... eeek ... saw him disappear so close to the front bonnet of the car that he was out of view ... I am pretty certain that I didn't hit him but it was a very, very, near miss.
I didn't see anything in the rear mirrors except a cop car that overtook me shortly after. He must have seen my emergency stop.
Wildlife! One dead badger is one roadkill too many. I would have felt so guilty if I had harmed the poor creature. Probably did scare it somewhat. I hope it did learn something about road traffic.
[NB The camera at the top of the windscreen that is supposed to react to pedestrians trying to cross missed seeing the badger altogether so on this occasion the automatic collision avoidance/mitigation system wasn't triggered.]