Why does it happen to the good guy.

I was going up town today and I live on the outskirts of Wolverhampton so I turned out of my road on to an empty main road. Now this road is really long, straight and wide and the footpath is quite a distance from the road itself so putting your foot down is extremely tempting. However being only a 30mph road I was resisting temptation and stayed in 4th gear.

All of a sudden this big labrador shot out of a farm gate and I felt two bumps as it went under both passenger side wheels. I felt so sick it was unreal, this is my 1st accident.

So I pulled over and got out and there was no dog on the road, instead it was running round its garden (although it had a black stripe down its side from where I had gone over it) with its tail wagging like mad.

The bloke took it to the vet and its got a cut on its shoulder and had 6 stitches.

Just to give you a sense of it, the dog split my bumper in 3 places and went under both wheels and it only got a cut.

It just p***es me off that I was doing 30 and while I was talking to the guy who owned the dog people were whizzing past at 50 and 60mph, makes me sick:yuck: No justice.

at least the dog is ok, you be feeling bad if it died even if you wasnt doing nothing wrong

Glad the dog is ok, but sorry to hear about your car. Technically you can claim off the owner for not keeping his dog under control, which I also believe is a criminal offence.

Poor dog for having an irresponsible owner

dogs do daft things despite the owners best efforts.


nearly saw a dog get mullered in ulan bataar. we were on teh way to teh cinema to watch pirates of the caribean 2 in mongolian when we had this puppy follow us, was best part of 6weeks old no more.
anyway, it followed us across all sorts of roads and bad traffic. very affectionate little thing.
eventually mananged to leave it outside this pub. next to a taxi rank thoguh.
went to cinema came back out and couldn't find the puppy, then a taxi moved off and there it was, flat as a pancake, several dozen taxi's must have flattened it by then.

was very sad.



And nearly saw one get mullered a few weeks back on the A68. this jack russel thing ran out into the path of a car coming 60mph the other way with the sun in her eyes. she saw th dog at th last minute adn missed it by inch's.
the dog then trotted back off into the house as the old woman just sat on the porch watching the mayhem unfold.

Same feeling as hitting a person or realising someone is dead. just feels like your inards have fell out

1986Uno45S said:

Glad the dog is ok, but sorry to hear about your car. Technically you can claim off the owner for not keeping his dog under control, which I also believe is a criminal offence.

Poor dog for having an irresponsible owner

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The bloke seems happy enough that his dog is ok. He admitted that although his dog got out accidentally he was liable so I'm getting it sorted and giving him the bill, he's already agreed to pay it. And if he changes his mind I've got a crime numer from the police.

So anyone know of any good scrappies round wolverhampton where there is a dark green punto with colour coded bumpers?

wow! what a hard dog. i feel sorry for anyone who tries to rob that house.

i would be glad the dog is alright.about 12 years ago i had to take a dog to the vets after being hit.
it was put down but the state it was in and the noises it made haunt me to this day.
oh wasnt me who it it,was a hit & run

wow! what a hard dog. i feel sorry for anyone who tries to rob that house.

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looks like my old dog him.,., only mine had few bits of black on him too and didnt have a superman cape obviously!.,.,lol

I killed a rabbit once on a motorway, although it was kinda intentional..,lol,.,(sorry Dave)., and i killed a Pigeon on the motorway a few weeks ago(untentionally).,.,

Nice to see you have a sense of humor about it JUG... HE kinda was the dog of iron.

And vtec why do you aim at rabbits and UNINTENTIONALLY kill pigeons.

Anyways the boke gave me £60 and I got it sorted. Dogs fine just a bit stiff. Looks like prolem solved.

Went down the scrappy today and got a front bumper (only a black 1), foggies, some clear indicators, a new starter motor and new wiper blades all for £40.
Only question is I have seen these universal fit clear side repeaters in Motor World (LINK) Reckon they are any good?