Would you swerve to avoid an animal on the road?
Small animal (below headlamp level) = Hit or Swerve?
Larger animal (above headlamp level) = Hit or Swerve?
For both I would brake, brace and hit rather than swerve at speed
What you guys think?
Answers:
It depends on the situation. If you can safely avoid the animal, it's best to avoid it. If attempting to miss it would cause you to risk going off the road or hitting another vehicle, you are probably safer to hit the animal.
With large animals, like deer, you may be safer to swerve if you're not driving too fast. A deer through the windshield could injure or kill you.
Brake/ swerve
It would really upset me but I am afraid I am in agreement with you on this. I would rather hit an animal than hit another car and possibly hurt another human.
I will admit that after hitting them I would probably stop the car (safely) and go back and check on them - probably take to vets if possible.
only if it was safe to do so.
Either way, hit the animal. If you swerve you might come off the road and injure yourself or hit an oncoming vehicle.
Only a very large one
For any animal break. Because i'm not gonna die ova a deer, if he gets hit can't say i didn't try.
those small ones.yeah, have to hit it.larger anaimals, well, deer have been known to do quite a bit of damage to your car, and even kill people when they hit a dear.so depending on if there was somewhere to go (i.e. swerve right or left) i would swerve.
i would brake and try to avoid hurting the animal. but, if it was between harming the animal or myself/others the animal would have to go. sorry animals!!
Always hit it. Feel free to brake, but don't swerve. It's the safe bet every time. Although it may damage the car, the chance of injury to you is much smaller than if you were to try and swerve. Normally swerving ends up causing loss of control which in turn leads to more damage to the vehicle and a better chance that you'll have to go to the hospital.
It all depend on how much danger I would put myself in if I swerve off the road. If there is a danger of my getting killed, or the animal, it would have to be the animal. I, however would do my best not to hit the animal.
depends on the animal a persons pet, or a stray dog yes, a racoon or some other critter ill run it over if i can get around it..
Do whatever it takes to save human lives. It all depends on the road conditions. Same thing goes for bicyclist. I'm not going to avoid them and have a head on with another car. Just have to slow down and assest the situation before it becomes a threat.
I'd defiantly stop I hate driving and seeing road kill
I generally aim towards squirrels but I would swerve to avoid something like a moose or a deer if safe to do so. I am always aware of all the cars around me so I can make this type of snap judgement.
As much as I love animals, the safety of my passengers as well as my own safety comes first. I would brake, then swerve. I would be distraught if I hit an animal. and if at all possible, I would try and help it.
I've been lucky touch wood that I have managed to avoid impact because generally I don't use the roads, especially country roads as a race track, and usually have time to slow right down and/or stop. I don't know how it is for other people but if something darts into road, human or animal my automatic reflex is not to hit anything.
you should try to miss big or small animals.i hit a rabbit once while i was driving a semi and the dam rabbit took out the cross over fuel line and i ran out of fuel 30 miles down the road
depends on the road, speed and traffic, but I tend to hit the varmit rather than risk losing control.
If your car has ABS brakes, you can brake and swerve at the same time, its advised by big car companies.
But you kind of answered your own question.
Small animals = Hit
Larger animals = Swerve as much and as possible without causing an accident and then brace for the impact.
But the best solution is probably to keep our eyes on the road and be on the watch-out for these scenarios.
I normally would put my foot down and smash the animal to bits, doesnt seem to affect my HGV. some times i will swerve if the animal is getting away, if i only clip its leg or back end i go home knowing i've done a good job.
you should never swerve,an acident becomes your falt if you swerve. you should just do emergency stops. i would slam the brakes on for any animal, as long as looked in my mirror and it was safe to! :)
Yes I would
sure it would be a bit silly to swerve if there was a veichle coming towards you, id rather have to kill a poor animal than kill a human
Naaar, road kill, good tucker!
Whatever I think in theory, the reality is that instinct might make me swerve anyway. It would take a lot of self-control not to.
It would depend on the traffic, road conditions and my speed. If there was a way to avoid the animal safely, I would do that. If not I would have to hit it, and hope that it does not do too much damage to my vehicle!
First: in general, I would hope that everyone would attempt to avoid hitting an animal with their car. The possibility of an animal running out in front of your car always exists (although is remote in urban areas), and should always be a bit on your mind (as should be the possibility of a child running out in the street.)
Second: if you have enough time to think "is this a small or large animal" or "is this animal above or below headlight level", then you have plenty of time to stop or swerve safely. In real accidents, you react first and justify your reaction after the fact. So this isn't something you can plan for; it's just something you're going to DO.
Finally: if you think that hitting an animal is always better than swerving, consider this: a friend of mine hit a deer while driving back to his army base. He was driving a late 80s Toyota Celica hatchback. The deer was on the side of the road, wasn't even in front of the car -- and he decapitated it. The right-side A-pillar cut through its neck, and the head shattered the entire windshield and ended up in his passenger seat. He almost hit a tree as well, because the impact altered his course on the road, and a sudden unexpected shattering of a windshield in front of your face is *not* going to be the kind of thing you recover from quickly.
Yeah, i have done. I drove around a hedgehog while out on my driving test but i still passed!!
up and over
I would definately avoid an elephant or a rhino..they don't like being crashed into.
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