What to avoid when driving

[alan.chalkley]

When driving our cars we avoid stones,hail,fallen trees,kangaroos,spiny ant eaters,rabbits,foxes,birds and the list goes on.
The sydney harbour bridge has a history of falling tools and more recently cars and drones.
There was one incident where a complete drone ended up in a car and another where a camera fell off its drone and entered a car.
Please feel free to add to this list, so that we can avoid damage and hopefully reduce the rising cost of insurance.

[Tcoat]

Known projectiles/unavoidable obsticals that struck/been struck by me in this car:
A magically direction changing flying lca
A high velocity spray of salt and sand mix from a road salter (50 times or so)
Dead raccoons X 2
Dead skunk
Live squirrel
A bouncing tail light assembly
An airborn brake line
Large section of blown out transport tires X 3
Big bloody bullet speed rocks X about 12
Small bloody bullet speed rocks X about 100
Chunk of wheel well ice frozen to the ground
Bits and pieces of truck splattered deer about 10 pounds worth in total

A very different list than the Aussie one!

That is just with this car. Not sure there is enough space on the server for the whole list over the last 44 years of driving.

[ezgt86]

Also, add the police to the list.

[alan.chalkley]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Known projectiles/unavoidable obsticals that struck/been struck by me in this car:
A magically direction changing flying lca
A high velocity spray of salt and sand mix from a road salter (50 times or so)
Dead raccoons X 2
Dead skunk
Live squirrel
A bouncing tail light assembly
An airborn brake line
Large section of blown out transport tires X 3
Big bloody bullet speed rocks X about 12
Small bloody bullet speed rocks X about 100
Chunk of wheel well ice frozen to the ground
Bits and pieces of truck splattered deer about 10 pounds worth in total

A very different list than the Aussie one!

That is just with this car. Not sure there is enough space on the server for the whole list over the last 44 years of driving.

What is an lca?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by alan.chalkley

What is an lca?

Lower control arm. A truck hit one laying on the highway and flung it at me. I almost avoided it but it clipped my rear quarter and cut a 7 inch slice.

[alan.chalkley]

Oh i forgot to add people with their head stuck in a mobile phone , trying to find a monster in some game!

[Boomerang]

Dropbears

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Cinder/concrete blocks, deer carcasses, vulture carcasses, buckets, live sea lion (not sure how that ended up on the highway, but she refused to leave for a few days causing major traffic), bungee cords/rope, furniture...those are things I've seen on my commute to work.

I've also seen ladders and stalled cars in the fast lane before on a different freeway I used to drive on a lot.

[carbonBLUE]

1 go kart sealed bearing
1 deer
2 basket balls
1 soccor ball
1 full sized washer (this one unloaded itself then somehow landed perfectly at 70mph and slid to a stop while standing straight up and down)
1 fallen tree
many hails

[gramicci101]

Wingback chairs. I saw it fall off the back of a pickup truck in front of me; the SUV in the lane to my left didn't. He merged into my lane just in time to eat the chair and I went four lanes to the right to avoid shrapnel. This was on I-5 in LA.

Cars going the wrong way on I-15. Vegas loves their drunk driving.

[7 skulls]

This looks like a fun thread. I'm in.

Moose, or in passenger speak MOOSE!,found alone, in pairs, or groups of up to 4, unpredictable, blue/white eye shine at night.
Mattresses, both flying and laying down.
Chesterfield
Potholes, in popular sizes ranging from "kurchunk" to F#@K there goes my wheel.
Inverse potholes ie frost heaves, large enough to high center this car.
Man running by the side of the road in sport coat holding large flower.

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by 7 skulls

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Man running by the side of the road in sport coat holding large flower.

LMAO