For some reason I find that incredibly funny...

Or an elk.
Attachment 831
They´re not as big as a moose, but we have such a large amount of elks running around in the woods, crossing the roads that there´s a national elk hunting period every year to keep the numbers down.
When you hit an elk with the car you push its legs away and it falls through the windshield into your lap so to say. Often with the result that the driver and/or passenger is/are killed. I´ve seen many elks crossing the road right in front of me, or just standing right beside the road. It´s a good reason to keep the speed down and drive a large car with "that thingie that blows up like a balloon" (my dictionary is really old, didn´t have that word;) )

Congrats to your new car Saks. Drive safe and always arrive alive:)

Airbag?
http://www.netcar.co.il/img2/milon/2...0air%20bag.jpg

That´s the word!:)

Our deer-hunting season serves much the same purpose. With no natural predators left, they'd soon be so numerous that you'd have to shove them out of the way to walk down the street.
You've just perfectly described the experience of hitting a deer. They're not very large (only a few hundred pounds), but they do a lot of damage. They tend to get mesmerized by a car's headlights, so they just stop in the middle of the road.

I love that word, mesmerized, 'cause now I actually know why it means what it does. :D

Ok Computer?

I dislike that attitude that "oh it's such a pain when those damn dear get in the way of our cars!" or "400 dolphins dying presumably because of man-made technology is a tragedy because it'll hurt the tourism of such-and-such country" or "mankind > nature." What disrespect for the natural world.

Oh, whatever.

Of course it´s bad both for the animals and for the persons when there is a car-animal accident. I don´t think it´s a sign that I don´t respect the natural world that I drive a car. I live in an area of the world where there are more woods than buildings. I have to deal with the fact that there are wild animals living in this area and I keep a reasonable speed not to end up face to face with an elk. I still need this vehicle to get from A to B. Showing respect of the natural world can mean a lot of other choises.

When I was at school I had a substitute physics teacher who told us of the time she hit a deer. It was her way of making Newton's laws that little bit more interesting.

She stopped, examined her car (which had suffered minimal damage as the incident occured prior to the invention of crumple-zones) then strapped the animal to the roof of the vehicle and had venison that weekend!

Well, you've got to make the best of a bad situation! :D

I had read about the EU crumple-zone law some years ago. It went into effect with all the new 2006 releases, is that right?