"Ruth Budge"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >I think I can answer both those questions, even though I live in the biggest >city in Australia! > >In most cases, its the vehicle comes off worse in an encounter with a kangaroo >- -roos are often very heavy animals, and they're bouncing fast and hard when >they hit a car.
We don't have elk or kangaroos, just white-tailed deer, which are relatively light, usually under 150 lbs. But their fast gait is a leap: when a deer leaps out of a ditch into the side or onto the hood of a car, it's not unknown for the car to be totalled when the driver loses control. Car-deer accidents having been going up as more people move into rural Michigan, over a 1000 a year in our county. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
