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Originally Posted by rubicon
i almost ran down a driver who stopped her vehicle suddenly on 466 to carry a turtle to safety.
she is most fortunate she was not carried away
Safety experts will tell you rather than making sudden movements while driving to avoid an animal it is safer to hit the animal because too many people have been killed or badly injured when trying to avoid an animal.
Sounds logical to me and I believe a relief for a family that would have otherwise lamented he should have hit the darn deer and stayed alive
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Deers are usually moving a whole lot faster than turtles.
A funny story. My then maybe 90 year old great grandmother Trueblood (cool name isn't that) in Apache Junction, AZ used to insist that she drive rather than my father because she knew where all the cows were in the desert. No. She was not senile but there way no way anyone could have kept track of the cows in the deserts around Phoenix.
I had to watch out for the cows in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado too.
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