Truck 1, Turkey 0

[Biker1mike]

Grand daughter learning to drive is doing 45 on a nice road. From out of the field on the left a turkey runs into the road and starts it take off. These damn birds do a vertical like a B-52.
No time to hit the brakes or swerve. Kid hangs on as the bird strikes the left front fender and then bounces off the corner of the windshield.
Got off road at the market to asses damage. Lots of guts and crap. Run thru the car wash shows a small dent.
Typical kid was sending pictures to all her contacts about a really low and slow turkey.

 

[skeets]

Little Brother and I were headed up to camp in the fall one year. And there were a couple turkeys crossing front of us. And like you said no time for anything just hang on. Anyways, one comes in contact with the front of his new ford truck, up the hood, hits the windshield over the roof bounces off the cap and was gone. OK no damage we can see, then the red and blue lights came on behind us. He pulled over and a state trooper walks up and askes the normal questions, where you going and all the paper work, goes back to his car. WTH did you do bro? I duno! Cop comes back up and askes if we hit a turkey, well yeah we did. Cop said he was going the other way and the turkey hit his windshield shattering it, and he was giving little Brother a ticket. What for ????

Flipping a cop the bird!!!
OK it was bad but it's still early

 

[ve9aa]

and how was the feed that night?

 

[D2Cat]

That's a good experience for the GD. It will stick in her mind and she will know when you can't slow up to dodge something you have to keep going. An inexperienced driver panics, goes for the side of the road, gets off and when turning to get back on the road loses control. Be thankful it wasn't a deer!!

 

[Henro]

Grand daughter learning to drive is doing 45 on a nice road. From out of the field on the left a turkey runs into the road and starts it take off. These damn birds do a vertical like a B-52.
No time to hit the brakes or swerve. Kid hangs on as the bird strikes the left front fender and then bounces off the corner of the windshield.
Got off road at the market to asses damage. Lots of guts and crap. Run thru the car wash shows a small dent.
Typical kid was sending pictures to all her contacts about a really low and slow turkey.

Related kind of (goose one, Biker zero):

Goose flies into motorcyclist's head, killing rider in Pa. crash, police say

Goose flies into motorcyclist's head, killing rider in Pa. crash, police say

Police in Bucks County said a deadly crash was caused by a goose flying into the head of a motorcyclist on Friday morning. According to a report by police, a motorcyclist was riding a 2013 Harley-Davidson in the Southeastern Pennsylvania county about 9:55 a.m. Friday when a goose flew out

triblive.com

Sorry to hear about the biker...put a lot of miles on bikes when I was in my late teens, early 20s.

 

[Crash277]

turkeys are dangerous where i live. there will be a flock of 30 just launch out of a field and go across the road. i had one hit my a pillar and explode all over my roof. luckily no dent but the mess was crazy. side note, watched 2 does saunter across the road on my commute this morning.

 

[Lil Foot]

Hit a big Raven once in a Toyota PU at about 50mph.
It shattered my windshield, and pushed the center in about 5 inches.
Got stopped, and turned to see what happened to the bird, and watched as it calmly flew away.
Tough bird.

 

[JimmyJazz]

I had an engineer client that worked for PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) in the research laboratory. He was 80 years old when I met him. One of the stories he told was of his creating a cannon that shot turkey carcasses at car windshields for testing purposes. He was of Swedish descent and built his house himself and heated it with wood sourced from his property. Grew his own fruit and vegetables. Very frugal and intelligent. He lived to 100 and left 4 million dollars to various charities. His name was Leighton and I wanted to name my son after him but the wife objected. Cool old guy.

 

[NCL4701]

Grand daughter learning to drive is doing 45 on a nice road. From out of the field on the left a turkey runs into the road and starts it take off. These damn birds do a vertical like a B-52.
No time to hit the brakes or swerve. Kid hangs on as the bird strikes the left front fender and then bounces off the corner of the windshield.
Got off road at the market to asses damage. Lots of guts and crap. Run thru the car wash shows a small dent.
Typical kid was sending pictures to all her contacts about a really low and slow turkey.

Good job by your grand daughter hitting the turkey and keeping it in the road. One of the first wrecks I worked was a lady that swerved to miss a rabbit that ran out in front of her. She and the rabbit both lived. She with a few broken bones. Killed her husband and her two kids. So far as anyone could figure rabbit was unscathed. Have worked many similar since but none quite that bad.

Also recall the first buzzard through the windshield I had to work. Fortunately no one in the passenger seat so no injuries except the buzzard which basically exploded in the passenger seat of a regular cab square body Chevy pickup. It was kind of like someone mixed up blood, feathers, raw sewage, and a couple of three week dead squirrels in a blender and sprayed it in the cab. Pretty disgusting in the 90+ heat.

 

[jyoutz]

Once I was driving on a woods road and a Turkey flew up in front and smacked my windshield, cracking it. The turkey was killed and bounced over the cab, landing in the bed. I took it home and dressed it out because it wasn’t turkey season. I figured that since my windshield was broken I may as well have a turkey dinner.