Last summer driving in Alberta I was driving very late at night in tight twisted roads and I came around a turn and BOOM right in my way is a moose standing in the road. Luckily no traffic was coming and I swerved around him / her.
That happened to me about eight years ago. I was driving on a dark road, speed limit 50, when all of a sudden I saw a very big elk standing stock-still in the right lane. Luckily I was in the left lane. It all went by in a second and a half. Thank God I just happened to be in the left lane. If I'd have hit the animal with my little Honda Civic, my wife and I would have been history.
I nicked a deer with my wheel on a dark country road about 25 years ago. I stopped. The poor animal's leg was broken and it was struggling to get up. I stopped at the first home alongside the road and asked the owner to call the police. When I passed the same spot the next day, I saw blood on the road. Evidently the cops shot the deer and took it away.
