How much damage?

[Bricktop X PWR]

"Answers on a postcard"

No its okay.

Answers on here will be fine.

There might be some swearing.......

 

[Alb]

I'd say none.

 

[emmrecs]

Damage? Car? Or buzzard?

Respectively 0% and 100% IMO!

 

[salty]

X Power 1 Buzzard 0

 

[Gadget Geek]

It depends on how fast you were travelling as kinetic energy is equal to half the mass of the buzzard multiplied by the square of the velocity.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

It depends on how fast you were travelling as kinetic energy is equal to half the mass of the buzzard multiplied by the square of the velocity.

You can see exactly how fast I was going.

 

[Gadget Geek]

Oh yes, I see it. An adult buzzard weighs around 1 kilogram, so you'd be looking at 13 joules of energy transfered to the front of your car. I reckon that's enough to crack a palstic bumber which is designed to do just that.

 

[maskull]

Had one hit me many moons ago . When I got home ,I couldn't figure out why people were pointing at my car and laughing . Upon getting out of the car I saw the reason for the mirth, a large crucified bird embedded in my grill ....the bird wasn't laughing though

 

[OriginalBigAl]

It probably couldn't get enough altitude because it had a great big arrow up its jacksie. Bad luck! I won't bore you with the story of a CBR 600 , Grouse, and 380 quids worth of fairing.
Open a bottle of tipple and have a dram or two , might help you sleep better tonight,

 

[Andrew Sinclair]

 

[dsimpkins]

Buzzard "It'll buff out, splat! Oh bugger!"

Did I detect a West Country accent among all the swearing?

 

[siteguru]

Is it time for @Rolfe to dig out her duck photo again?

 

[dsimpkins]

No, he defintely wasn't saying Duck, more like ...

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

Buzzard "It'll buff out, splat! Oh bugger!"

Did I detect a West Country accent among all the swearing?

Aye!
Originally a Bristolian from April 1967 til August1985, when I left to join The Army.
Been all over since, but now settled in West Wales since 2019.

 

[dsimpkins]

I moved to Bristol only a few years after you left to join the Army. I studied here, and met my wife at Uni (it was a Polytechnic back then), so we settled here.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

So pat yourself on the back if you said no damage.
Which surprised me to be fair.

When I did stop to look, I was expecting scratches to the bonnet or the front of the roof due to beak or claw contact.

I mean between 750g and a kilo coming to the car at 60 mph.

Seeing how low the bird was, the aerodynamics must have lifted him up over the bumper/bonnet and into the windscreen.

Let me tell you, it was a hell of a BANG!

My emergency glass breaker, which is attached to the bottom of the sunglasses holder flew off, but that was it.

All happened so quickly.

I saw the bird launch from the other side of the road, but had zero opportunity to do anything.

I had a split second thought about banging on the anchors, but the car following stopped me doing that.

It's not the first thing I've hit/run over in nearly 50 years on the road, but it certainly made the loudest BANG!

RIP The Kamikaze Buzzard.

 

[Alb]

I was fairly confident about my reply because I've had this happen to me (motorway speed rather than national limit). Apart from blood and guts there wasn't a mark on the screen!

 

[Anon70]

You probably had the EBA (Emergency Buzzard Assistance) turned off, otherwise the car would have applied the brakes in such a manner as to allow the Merc driver behind you to inspect the rear light bar at close proximity

 

[Andrew Sinclair]

It happens very occasionally when flying and it does make a right clonk, even taking the windshield out is not unheard of.

It certainly wakes you up when flying several tonnes of metal at 200 mph several thousand ft up

It always leaves me with a feeling of guilt having invaded their space

RIP Buzzard

 

[Gadget Geek]

I think it also depends on the angle of the strike and the area (of the car, not the buzzard). Head on, hitting the bumper would do more damage than a glancing blow across the bonnet.