My car killed an animal earlier. Now what?

Grumpy_chap

Biggus_Dickus said:

A peruse of pursue vs persue:     

Which is correct pursue or persue?

The main difference between Pursue and Persue is that the Pursue is a seek to attain or accomplish (a goal) over a long period and Persue is a obsolete form of pursue. To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.

One should always pursue excellence!

Aretnap

user1977 said:

Aretnap said:

Alanp said:

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but if you kill say a pheasant with your car, you are not allowed to take it home to eat it( should you be so inclined) , but the person following you can…

sheramber said:

Yes, it has been mentioned.

It is not only pheasants.

Applies to deer as well. A friend fed her dogs on the roadkill deer on the road where she lived after she kept the good bits for the family freezer.

It's an urban myth. At least it's definitely an urban myth as far as deer go - the law is explicit that you're only allowed to take a deer carcass if you have the landowner's permission. It makes no difference which car you were travelling in.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/54/section/1/enacted

Though if the land in question is a (public) road, presumably the "occupier" is the roads authority, and why wouldn't you have a reasonable belief that the roads authority would be content for you to clear the carcass from the road? I doubt the council have a sideline in selling roadkill venison.

I suppose you could argue the point. I can't imagine it actually comes up in court very often. But the council would doubtless be equally indifferent whether it was cleared by the driver who'd hit it, or by the driver behind him...

Aretnap

sheramber said:

How many cases are there of someone being prosecuted for removing road kill?

I imagine in practice it's somewhere between "naff all" and "sweet FA". My point wasn't really to warn anyone about the dire consequences of taking a dead deer from the roadside, just that the popular "fact" that you are only allowed to do it if you weren't driving the car isn't actually true.

Car_54

Grumpy_chap said:

Biggus_Dickus said:

A peruse of pursue vs persue:     

Which is correct pursue or persue?

The main difference between Pursue and Persue is that the Pursue is a seek to attain or accomplish (a goal) over a long period and Persue is a obsolete form of pursue. To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.

One should always pursue excellence!

Indeed. Or failing that, spelling, grammar and punctuation…..

lincroft1710

olgadapolga said:

lincroft1710 said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

lincroft1710 said:

unforeseen said:

If you hit cattle or a horse then you would probably be notifying the authorities from your hospital bed

Not necessarily.


Back in the late 1950s my father hit a New Forest pony in a hire car (old style Ford Popular 103E), the pony limped away, the Pop had wing and headlight damage, parents and myself unhurt.

I wonder if the severity of your particular accident was reduced because of the light weight of the Pop?  It would have carried much less energy into the collision than a modern car, which is fortunate for the pony!  Glad it survived and hope it wasn't badly injured.  

The unladen weight of a Pop was around 720 kg and we were probably travelling less than 30 mph before dad braked. Back in 1957 cars were much slower. Have no idea what happened to the pony

It died, most likely. If not from the accident or another problem then probably old age, especially as this was 64 years ago.

Well, obviously. But I don't know if it succumbed to its injuries soon after or lived to a ripe old age/