Thread: Hilux vs Kudu accident.

While catastrophic failures are front and centre today, here is one of a Hilux vs Antelope (Kudu) in South Africa. Spoiler... it ends in a draw.
https://youtube.com/shorts/uIh4egrFz...4rea_BQTs73hu9

Peeled the roof back like a sardine can.

Saw a hilux v pig event once. The pig basically replaced the engine in the front right, shoved the engine through the back left of the firewall and down under the floor pan and generally rearranged everything else accordingly. Driver limped out but very unhappy in his legs, I suspect if he wasn't the only occupant it would not have been such a benign outcome.

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Fuck-ing-hell.

Gives me the shits big time. Hit a couple of fallow in England, small bokke in Africa, roos, wallabies and pigs in Aus. Nothing serious - my Hilux still has the imprint of wallaby tail vertebrae along the bottom of the driver’s door. A near miss with a steer just outside Meekathara in WA. But the one we all remember with the chills was a huge sambar stag that jumped off the bank on the right side of the road, hit the top rail of the bull bar and UHF aerial with its rear legs and fell over on the left side, got up and ran away. Whole bloody animal passed across the front of the vehicle in midair above the level of the bullbar. Split second later and me and wife probably wouldn’t be here. Heading down the Dargo High Plains road, Victoria.

I've had a horse tail in the face riding my trail bike as a horse jumped a track in the middle of the night, but that Hilux would have been toast for all the passengers, should it have had any...

Cripes!

Looks to be a young one too. Fully grown Kudu's are impressive animals, not easy to fit one in the front of a Hilux for sure.

Originally Posted by XR500

I've had a horse tail in the face riding my trail bike as a horse jumped a track in the middle of the night, but that Hilux would have been toast for all the passengers, should it have had any...

In the comments it was asked if the driver had survived and the guy that posted the video said yes he had. I don’t believe they were any passengers.

We can understand that’s being said because (a) wife is Afrikaans and (b) I can speak it too, ish. The guy asks for assistance in getting the driver to hospital where it is assumed he survived from the comment.

When I worked at the Boddington Goldmine during the ramp up one of the top risks on the risk register was the drive to the mine. The area was played by Grey kangaroos, literally thousands of them, and the surrounding area is entirely arable farmland. There were several accidents involving kangaroos, one where a driller was very seriously injured. He was driving an Isuzu truck behind a ute, quite a close following distance (which was deemed a contributing factor to the severity of the outcome). The kangaroo bounced across the road and landed in the tray of the ute, hit the tool box and was flipped up into the air whereupon it struck the windscreen of the following truck, right in front of the driver. His upper torso was flattened and he barely survived.

incredibly it still took months and months for the mining company to put up deer fencing on either side of the road, due to arguments with the landowners who didn’t want Australia’s largest gold mine in the neighborhood. They were squabbling over cost which was quite incredible considering the mineral processing plant alone cost AUD 3.5 billion!

I worked in Mt Gunson open cast copper mine (SA) in the early 1980's. No arable land anywhere near. Our biggest threat was again from roos. The big reds.

The haul road from pit to mill was 10km long and was used 90% by dump trucks. The water pipe supplying the mill with water from the bottom of the pit ran alongside the haul road (road had been built up about 10 foot from the surrounding countryside). The pipe leaked in numerous places, subsequently the vegetation was lush in many spots which became a magnet for the roos.

But 150 tonne dumptrucks simply turned roos into 30 foot long smears on the haul road. Every night we'd hit 3-4 of them. Service wagons were a different story...