Thread: Hilux vs Kudu accident.

Originally Posted by XR500

I've had a horse tail in the face riding my trail bike as a horse jumped a track in the middle of the night, but that Hilux would have been toast for all the passengers, should it have had any...

In the comments it was asked if the driver had survived and the guy that posted the video said yes he had. I don’t believe they were any passengers.

We can understand that’s being said because (a) wife is Afrikaans and (b) I can speak it too, ish. The guy asks for assistance in getting the driver to hospital where it is assumed he survived from the comment.

When I worked at the Boddington Goldmine during the ramp up one of the top risks on the risk register was the drive to the mine. The area was played by Grey kangaroos, literally thousands of them, and the surrounding area is entirely arable farmland. There were several accidents involving kangaroos, one where a driller was very seriously injured. He was driving an Isuzu truck behind a ute, quite a close following distance (which was deemed a contributing factor to the severity of the outcome). The kangaroo bounced across the road and landed in the tray of the ute, hit the tool box and was flipped up into the air whereupon it struck the windscreen of the following truck, right in front of the driver. His upper torso was flattened and he barely survived.

incredibly it still took months and months for the mining company to put up deer fencing on either side of the road, due to arguments with the landowners who didn’t want Australia’s largest gold mine in the neighborhood. They were squabbling over cost which was quite incredible considering the mineral processing plant alone cost AUD 3.5 billion!