Not gotten anywhere near any Moose in a passenger car but with the trucks I often get close to them. As matter a fact since i last posted I spotted two large males, one was halfway on top of the snow bank on my right side coming around a bend. He stayed put though, I was already leaning to the left.
You may need to know that I run the Trans Canada Hwy 17 Westwards then back East every week. These area's are mostly dense Canadian wilderness. A lot of Wildlife population.
Closest I've ever come was around a bend at full clip during the blackness of the night, I see something large down the end of my high beams, I get on the binders to see two moose standing in the middle of the road kissing. It takes a lot to stop a large semi like this and by the time I got a half a football field down the road, both scattered in opposite directions into the berm and I split them in the middle. That one gave me a good scare.
Another time, one large monster standing still in my lane and direction of travel. Slowing down hard while cooking the brakes, instead if running to either side into the woods, this silly moose started running down the road in front of me, same direction. As much slowing down as I could, I was nipping at its rear end while laying on the big horn. She jumped to the right into the snowy ditch just in time.
I've got a whole dash cam archive back home of close calls but never to date have I hit one.
Came close to flipping the whole rig over the rails and down a cliff for a black bear that couldn't make up his mind on which direction he wanted to flee.
Seen plenty of already hit moose or deer here and there, even police hooking on chains and dragging them away to a side road.
Seen plenty of big rig wrecks into the woods due to moose. Even stopped once at night for a tractor trailer laying down on its side, with two lads coming through the front windshield with their bags in hand.
Asked if they ok and what happened .... swerved for a moose, lost control and capsized.
Seen plenty of abandoned pickup trucks or passenger cars, front ends totalled with yellow police tape around them.
Fatals are very possible when hitting large animals like that. More so in a passenger car.
If you ever hit a moose and it's just laying there, no blood, no broken legs, get the hell out of there or stay in the car. When that thing comes too and gets up its good and pissed off.
Had to warn many people one night, pickup smashed to hell in the front, several cars pulled over, 8 people or so, trying to drag a knocked out moose off to the side of the road. I pulled up, looked down and said, Lady that 1000lbs animal is not dead, stop pulling on it, when that monster gets up, you best be a kilometer down the road.
If you ever come upon a large moose in the middle of the road and it won't move out of the way, DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT start honking at it. It'll get pissed off, charge and start bucking your car until it has a headache. Not kidding here!!! Just wait it out, back up if you can and need to.
They are dangerous animals.
I consider myself lucky so far. I scan left to right, I see them a lot in the clear cuts.
Night time winter is when they are out licking the salty asphalt.
