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Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 1416855)

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

Our niece lost her life in Alaska swerving to avoid a caribou she encountered going around a curve in the road. I believe the experts are correct, but human nature and instincts are hard to overcome when confronting a big animal suddenly in front of a drivers car.
As for turtles, I've stopped and moved them more than once on our residential street with light traffic and a low speed limit. That's not something I would do on 466/466A, Morse/Buena Vista, etc.

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Originally Posted by bagboy (Post 1416937)

There was a turtle on the wrong side of the fence at Doggie Doo Run Run about six weeks ago. There is a large pond to the East within Fox Run Golf Course near Glenview CC. The creature was in with the dogs so I thought about picking it up but decided against it as I was all alone in the back field. I notified the dog park owner on the way out and they said they would check on the turtle but expected it would find its way to water. I still am not sure where it got under the fence as I could find no place where earth had created a large enough hole for it to get under.