In Australia, do cars hit kangaroos like in America how deer will run out in front of us?
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When driving in America, in certain parts of the country, you need to watch for deer. Is it the same in Australia?
When driving in America, in certain parts of the country, you need to watch for deer. Is it the same in Australia?
Yes in certain more outback areas, (they aren’t in the city). Actually you aren’t supposed to hit roos. The damage they do to your car when you hit them is irreparable
some times
but you need to watch out for
Bump Wallabies
they are scary when doing around 130klms and they hit your car
they bump off every where
that is why they are called bump wallabies
I live in Canberra, Australia’s capital city, and at night when driving around you have to be careful not to hit kangaroos. They really smash up your car and if you’re on a motorbike expect to go to hospital. Most weeks it’s not uncommon to be driving round Canberra and see a dead kangaroo by the side of the road.
bloody pests when you go out west/bush
roo’s pigs emu’s southern states wombats as well
dawn & dusk are the bad times
It is the same in Australia as well with the kangaroos.They hop on the road and then are unable to move.Early morning and late afternoon is usually time time when they are more active moving from one place to the other.
in australia , you probably won’t find deers.
but im sure if your out in the middle of the night , you need to watch out for koalas .
Yea, it is pretty similar - it happens all over the country, but it’s way more likely to happen in the country than the city.
I live in a small town, it takes us about 20 minutes to get to a good shopping centre.. we often see kangaroos on roads near our house, you have to be careful but most of them do move out the way.
Roads withs scrub or open land are always the most dangerous, they come out around dusk the most, but you have to be careful all day - especially during the warmer months.
Some people say if you are about to hit one, don’t break because it’s best to kill the kanagroo rather than kill yourself. We hear stories on the news about people being killed after hitting a kangaroo, or people talk about how much money they had to pay after a kangaroo hit their car, i does tons of damage. A lot of mothers get killed and ther joey dies later because nobody reliases they were carrying a joey inside their pouch. As you drive a long a road it’s normal to see dead kangaroos lying on the side - and possums and koalas, it’s really sad actually.
I guess it would be really similar to people hitting deers in America - they are only a problem in country areas, and the faster you drive, the bigger the risk of hitting them. We eat kangaroos as well (we are the only naion to eat the animal on our emblem) - not many people feel bad if they hit them, although I really, really would.
Hope this helps =]
Yep same problem with Kangaroo’s here. Mostly in rural areas though.
They hop onto the rode then your headlights startle them and they freeze, thats why dusk and dawn are the worst times.
The damage they do to cars is quite expensive to fix.
I’ve never seen roo’s on the rode myself, only hopping along in fields on the side of the rode. But I’ve only really been as rural as the inland highway through NSW the Hume hwy.
yes its so sad.
whenever we’re traveling some place i would usually see about 10 dead kangaroos on the side of the roads.
its because they are so fast and they just jump arcross the road and you cant get out of the way quick enough.
i hit one once it was soooo horrible
They don’t try to run out in front of your car, but they do get blinded by the headlights when they cross the roads. The giant red kangaroos of Northern Australia are the most dangerous. The damage they can do will probably write off a car and injure the occupants. My family’s Land-rover (solid as a house, with a huge bull-bar up front) once hit one. The red kangaroo not only dented the bull-bar it pushed it into the engine. We had to be towed 200kms to the nearest outback town. The Kangaroo died instantly unfortunately. The Land-rover lived to ride again, but not without extensive repairs. The most dangerous time for Kangaroo road hoppings are around dusk and dawn each day. This is when they move around a lot.
All kind of animals get hit by cars.. Especially out in the areas where its not as populated as the cities. Like in the bush and country areas…
Kangaroos do alot of damage to cars when they get hit..
When driving down to the coast, you will see dead animals atleast once.. I saw foxes, rabbits, kangaroos.. etc
In rural areas, yes, it is not uncommon for this to happen.
Some kangaroos are very big, so hitting one at full speed can cause a nasty accident.
When travelling you need to be aware of this possibility, especially around dusk (which is when kangaroos start moving around to feed).
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In Australia you’re much more likely to hit a tree while swerving to avoid a kangaroo - I personally know 3 people that have done this, I only know 1 that’s actually hit a roo. And I know 2 people that have hit trees when a huntsman (big spider) has run up the inside of the windscreen. I think it’s the trucks that get most of the roos. I saw two big dead ones on the highway yesterday between Armidale and Guyra (about a 20min drive).
lol no unless ur driving on a farm or a dodgy rocky road in the outback…
I’ve hit a few kangaroos and wallabies, all in country areas / national parks and so on. I don’t think I’ve ever managed to kill or even seriously injure a kangaroo, the most damage I’ve done to cars was broken indicators and a whopping dent in the bonnet where the kangaroo’s claws dug in after it rolled up to the windscreen, glared at me and then stood up and jumped off.
I can’t say the same for the smaller wallabies though - some of them probably came off second best.
I used to commute to Brisbane (100km each way) and every morning I had to watch out for wallabies, they were by the side of road at the same spot every morning (about 4 am). One morning I did come across a big red (a 7 footer) and I had about 2 seconds to react driving on the highway( at 100 km/hour). I knew he was dazzled by my lights so I changed lanes and missed him by a whisker. My car would have been a write off and he would have died. I’m not anywhere near in the outback, either.
Yes! Not that often where I live though, about 3 a week I have to dodge…. if I don’t want a panelbeaters bill.
Where I live on the western outskirts of Brisbane, we actually have more trouble avoiding deer than we do kangaroos. The roos around here are usually wallabies and are fairly small and not very numerous but the deer can be very large and come in herds of 15 or more.
In other parts of Queensland though, roos are a real problem at night and usually do a huge amount of damage to any car unlucky enough to hit one.
Yes, often!
Harriet
There are times and places where people are reluctant to drive in the late evening because of the roos. Years ago a friend of mine rolled his car attempting to dodge a roo, his set belt let go and he went through the back window of the car which was open. He lay on the roadside paralysed for some hours since he had cracked a vertebra. Luckily there was no permanent damage.
Any idiot that goes on about the poor kangaroos or the danger to pedestrians from roo bars on the front of vehicles ought to be asked to travel long distances on country roads at night. After they have hit a few roos and had to pay insurance excess on vehicle repairs they might change their ideas.
However the drivers of large trucks fit steel bars to the front and do not even slow down when they see roos. One truck driver says it is rare for him to go a week without hitting a roo. Sometimes they damage the truck but usually not.
Yes… in many parts of the country - this is the same problem as you have in the US.
I hit one earlier this year… no way I can avoid it. It was suddenly there.
Most accidents cause A LOT of damage and they say that the average cost is $1000. I was lucky though. The only damage I got was a broken headlight cover and a tiny dent on the side of my car.
Cheers
Dingo’s are a ****** on the roads where I live as well…..wiped out the front of my car when I hit one,,,pest.
Cars never hit kangaroos because kangaroos wear bright yellow and orange reflective vests 24/7 so they can be seen at all times.