I have had an adventure recently that I would have rather not had. I was on the M1 from NSW to QLD in that lousy weather of constant rain at about 4 am on the 8 of March.
I was following a truck at more than the legal distance and the truck without indication suddenly swerved into the outside lane, he had tried to avoid a cow (already dead I assume) that appeared to be on its side in the middle of the road but the rig clipped it with his left front wheels and it spun on its side across into the middle of the road and my path because I had decided to also move across to the outside lane thinking the truck had come across road works or a flooded part of the road and therefore I was in the middle of the road crossing to the right lane when I had no choice travelling at about a 100k to run over the animal that was perfectly side on to the front of my vehicle.
I swear the vehicle left the road and I bounced up out of my seat as the 4x4 and my caravan went straight over this fully grown cow at 100k. Luckily I was still mobile and I kept going wondering what damage I had suffered. The truck up front did not stop and being on a dark motorway in lousy conditions and realising my caravan lights were not working and with hardly any road shoulder I was not going to risk stopping, and everyone knows that time of the morning the motorway is full of speeding trucks.
I stopped at the first side road and I had under panel front damage, however nothing vital and everything still worked fine. The light plug was pulled apart but had no damage and reconnected, however the caravan was leaking water from one of the 120 ltr tanks.
I am towing with a 2020 Landrover Defender an Austrack Tanami X15L hybrid off road camper. This was a collision test for both vehicles and I believe not many vehicles would have come out of this so well. My biggest regret is for the cow being hit on the road and I hope it was as dead as possible and did not suffer after I went over it.
I had my road cam on at the time so I can relive the nightmare as often as I like.
-- Edited by sklyjd on Saturday 19th of March 2022 12:01:18 PM
