Good God, Don’t Hit a Moose with Your Car

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If you’ve never seen a moose, do. They’re giants. A bull can weigh 1500-lbs and stand damn near 7-feet tall. Up close they seem larger. Elephantine. Handily the second-largest animal walking around North America, the long gangly legs of a moose make it seem like a car could whiz right underneath their broad ribs. As this video shows, they cannot.  

Good God, Don’t Hit a Moose with Your CarSomething about the calm and smooth movements of moose makes them disappear into their surroundings. Even this monster of a fellow, standing out in a Colorado meadow, would be challenging to see for a motorist when he made his way into the highway-side brush. It’s no excuse for clipping too fast through a National Forest, but we’ve all done it. We’ve all had that moment with a deer, or a coyote, or an elk. Fortunately for this moose, the driver of this Jeep got good and hard on the brakes. After a dramatic and seemingly impossible somersault through the air, the big fellow walks away from this accident. Surely beaten, surely sore, but alive.

The Jeep didn’t fare much better. Despite weighing three times as much as a moose and having momentum and engineering on its side, the Grand Cherokee was left undrivable after the impact. Windshield stove-in. Hood a wrinkled mess. The poster of the video reports that all the Jeep’s occupants were okay. We imagine they were quite shaken.

It’s a dramatic reminder. To slow down. To take in your surroundings, pay attention to the roadside. And maybe to make a point of looking for moose instead of finding them by accident.


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13 thoughts on “Good God, Don’t Hit a Moose with Your Car”

  1. That wasn’t even a very big moose. Someone here hit one recently and they totaled the front end of an F-350

    I’ve seen them close up. It’s like seeing Godzilla. They a cross between a cow and a dinosaur, and your first instinct is to look for a tree to climb.

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    1. Where is here that you have moose? I’m originally from Alaska and we had moose hits in the winter all over about 30-40 years ago. Not so many moose anymore.

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        1. And…..when the lake is frozen it’s a short walk to Canada, so I may have Canadian moose here. Black bears swim across in the summer.

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          1. I’ve seen them as far south as Utah and in Idaho up in the neck. I have a picture of a guy in Northern Minnesota with a bull moose in harness.

  2. That car got away with very little damage.
    Even a 100 to 150 lb deer does major damage.
    Do you remember seeing the truck that allegedly hit a bunch of people in I think Germany a few days ago? Hitting humans would be like hitting deer. Notice there was no damage to the lower front end of the alleged truck.

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    1. Now I’m not being smart here. Literally (proper use of this word) yesterday I saw a flying squirrel for the first time ( blasted him off a roof with leaf blower) he’s ok he flew away…I read this article about MOOSE and low and be hold BULLWINKLE IS COMMENTING. Idk just funny I guess. I’m not laughing at your user name just the coincidence ? And fond Saturday morning cartoons.

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  3. Yeah…hitting a mouse is not a good idea.
    They’re damn near the size of my x mother-in-law.
    Athough she’s passed.
    I still wouldn’t eat her…even if she was bigger than a moose.
    Although. ..
    I may eat a moose steak after I hit it.
    Mmmmm..Mmmnn.

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    1. I grew up on moose meat and here in Oklahoma am forced to eat white tails. I’d give anything for a large moose roast.

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