Right. I was just thinking the same thing.
Moose are bad enough, but those flying squirrels will smash right through the windshield ....
A moose once bit my sister
Moose are especially dangerous if your sister is in the car.
A definite Moosed-Do.
Møøse bites are nästi.
The hind leg crashed through my windshield! These damned terrorist Moose limbs!
Big problem in Alaska. The highway sign along the highways says 346 moose have been hit since last July. And that’s just in our area.
I very nearly bagged two moose with my car in the wilds of the Quabbin Reservoir a couple of years ago. It was late twilight (sky still kind of light but very dark down among the trees), no streetlights, some oncoming traffic, road speed of 50. Not 40 yards in front of me, I barely see a dark shape move across the road (1st moose), and start braking only to see a second moose cross immediately behind the first, now only 20 yards in front of me. It took a while for my heartrate to come down. If the first moose had crossed even two seconds later, I’d have hit it, and probably caught a piece of the second one too.
Moral: Buy some *good* driving lights, and use them religiously.
I came close to hitting a deer in the yoop many years ago. Who knew Chevy Citation brakes worked that well?
Whoever was driving that SUV, good brakes would not have made a difference, barely any time to react.
Moose are not only dangerous because they are big and heavy. They have long legs so when a car hits them it takes the legs out from under and the moose land on the windshield or roof above the windshield and enters the passenger compartment crushing the driver. Especially dangerous at night as they blend in the dark and their eyes do not glow as other nocturnal creatures eyes do. A friend of mine hit a big moose with a suburban, it ended up in his lap, the vehicle was a total loss and he spent many days in the hospital, nearly didn’t make it.
A moose tested my sister.