What are the rules if you are involved in a roadkill

[vkurup]

What are the rules around roadkill. Assume it is different for different animals..

1) Mouse,
2) Fox
3) Deer
4) Human >> assume that is straight to the cops
5) Dog
6) Cat
7) Horse
8) Snake

 

[ManinBlack]

What club were you using when it happened?

 

[In_The_Rough]

Good question. Not sure you have to report any of those, obviously as you say the human one is self explanatory

 

[ColchesterFC]

For the first three I always thought that the rules were that if you hit an animal you weren't allowed to stop and pick it up but if you were following a car that hit something you could then stop and take it home for the freezer. This could all be an urban myth. Also my understanding that if you hit a dog you have to report it to the police but if you hit a cat you don't for some reason. But I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell me I'm wrong.

 

[In_The_Rough]

For the first three I always thought that the rules were that if you hit an animal you weren't allowed to stop and pick it up but if you were following a car that hit something you could then stop and take it home for the freezer. This could all be an urban myth. Also my understanding that if you hit a dog you have to report it to the police but if you hit a cat you don't for some reason. But I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell me I'm wrong.

I think you are correct on this

 

[chrisd]

For the first three I always thought that the rules were that if you hit an animal you weren't allowed to stop and pick it up but if you were following a car that hit something you could then stop and take it home for the freezer. This could all be an urban myth. Also my understanding that if you hit a dog you have to report it to the police but if you hit a cat you don't for some reason. But I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell me I'm wrong.

I always understood it like this too

 

[Pin-seeker]

Imagine phoning the police to alert them you've just run over a mouse:rofl:
Don't think I'd bother if I hit a cat tbh.

 

[vkurup]

For the first three I always thought that the rules were that if you hit an animal you weren't allowed to stop and pick it up but if you were following a car that hit something you could then stop and take it home for the freezer. This could all be an urban myth. Also my understanding that if you hit a dog you have to report it to the police but if you hit a cat you don't for some reason. But I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell me I'm wrong.

I am sure this is an urban myth. I am sure i heard it on Top Gear, so I am sure it is nonsense.

 

[vkurup]

Have added a few more likely things to be hit..

Imagine phoning the police to alert them you've just run over a mouse:rofl:
Don't think I'd bother if I hit a cat tbh.

What if the cat was chasing the mouse? Hence more like collateral damage.

 

[In_The_Rough]

Dog has to be reported not sure about a horse

 

[Pin-seeker]

Have added a few more likely things to be hit..



What if the cat was chasing the mouse? Hence more like collateral damage.

Now I've got visions of Tom & Jerry.
If you hit a horse some one else would probably have to phone the emergency services for you.

 

[stevie_r]

Also my understanding that if you hit a dog you have to report it to the police but if you hit a cat you don't for some reason.

Is that not a throw back to the days when dogs were licensed (and cats obviously weren't)?

 

[Foxholer]

Lots of myths in this area!

I once collided with a Deer - Red or Roe, but big enough to cause over 5k damage to the car! I wouldn't consider eating it though!

And was consoling a shocked Lady after she hit a Pheasant (I'd seen the brake lights and the explosion of feathers) when a Range Rover passed on the other side of the road, realised what had happened and reversed back to 'claim' the carcass! Quite amusing the way it all seemed to happen like scenes in a slo-mo movie!

 

[Khamelion]

Hell if you hit a horse side on, chances are you'd have a few hundred pounds of carcass coming through the windscreen. So I would say the first person you'd need to call would be the fire brigade to come get you out, if you were still conscious.

Wouldn't fancy picking deer up that had been road kill either, some do carry ticks that carry Lymes disease, if I want to eat bambi I'll get the meat from a butcher, not the A69.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

For the first three I always thought that the rules were that if you hit an animal you weren't allowed to stop and pick it up but if you were following a car that hit something you could then stop and take it home for the freezer. This could all be an urban myth. Also my understanding that if you hit a dog you have to report it to the police but if you hit a cat you don't for some reason. But I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell me I'm wrong.

:thup:

With this area being flooded with deer - a couple of guys used to go around looking to hit them and the one person behind picking them up then selling the meat off.

 

[Sharktooth]

30 years ago my auld boy would swerve to hit 'game' rather than swerve to avoid.. And that was in his HGV. Wasn't the first time I was phoned to go and scrape dinner off the road...

 

[palindromicbob]

Pretty sure as others have said that a dog needs to be reported. They are still license here in N.I. but also a dog is likely to belong to someone therefore is effectively property. The dog owner may also be liable to pay for damage caused AFAIK.

Pretty sure same applied to horses and livestock depending on the situation of the accident. These are domesticated animals and the owner is responsible for them. You may be liable to replace the livestock if for example you were found to driving without due care.

Same doesn't apply to cats because of the number of feral cats and ownership can be difficult to determine because as any cat owner might know, they decide what they do not the owner.

Wild animal then the need to report would depend on the situation and animal size. Clipped a deer and deer runs off it would be worth reporting so that RSPCA etc could check the area an help deal with animal injuries.

 

[SaintHacker]

Lifted this from the Road traffic Act

A dog (as well as a goat, horse, cattle, ass, mule, sheep and pig) does come within the remit of the Road Traffic Act and is a reportable accident so you are required by law to report it to the police.

 

[SocketRocket]

What about Rats in your kitchen?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Interesting insurance take on this.
If you are on the road, stationary in your car, and a mounted horse rider loses control of the horse and it damages your car you cannot claim against the rider. Comes out of your insurance.

I lived in Newmarket for 5 years where they have special traffic light crossings for the horses.