Vermont driver killed after hitting cow in road at more than 100 mph, police say

[sparky]

there is nothing quite like a frontal collision w/ livestock

~S~

 

[Yarddog]

You KNOW the driver had to be a dim...

The cow couldn't hear the Prius coming, end of story.

 

[whitehall]

Outside of the 100 mph speeding, hitting a cow in a rural area is not that uncommon. My wife hit a black cow on a dark unlit rural road and totaled out little subaru at the time. She was buckled in and unhurt. The cow was killed.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The cow couldn't hear the Prius coming, end of story.

It was going 100, couldn't have been a pompous pius.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Outside of the 100 mph speeding, hitting a cow in a rural area is not that uncommon. My wife hit a black cow on a dark unlit rural road and totaled out little subaru at the time. She was buckled in and unhurt. The cow was killed.

RIP.

 

[lennypartiv]

We need to breed faster cows

The family of the driver should sue the owner of the cow for letting it on the road.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Maybe. But steering away, he may have hit other traffic, buildings, trees or pedestrians. Going 100 mph doesn't give the driver much time to consider other options that might have been worse.

How do you know it was a steer?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The family of the driver should sue the owner of the cow for letting it on the road.

Oh, I am sure the owners LET the car onto the road.

It's a good thing you never tried to be a brain surgeon. You would have wound up as a big fish!

 

[monkrules]

He should have steered away.

Instead of trying to bull his way through.

 

[monkrules]

The driver had always wanted to try banging a cow.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I feel sorry for the cow

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Outside of the 100 mph speeding, hitting a cow in a rural area is not that uncommon. My wife hit a black cow on a dark unlit rural road and totaled out little subaru at the time. She was buckled in and unhurt. The cow was killed.

When I was 17 I hit one while driving my dad's truck. Truck totaled, cow dead, I was ok...my Dad was pissed off

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Speeding driver in Vermont hits cow standing in roadway, dies in crash RIP

I want to know how you get a cow to do 100 mph!

 

[rightwinger]

Oh, I am sure the owners LET the car onto the road.

It's a good thing you never tried to be a brain surgeon. You would have wound up as a big fish!

Most use these things called fences

 

[Chillicothe]

"The family of the driver should sue the owner of the cow for letting it on the road."

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Yeah, I think there possibly could be a negligence claim there. On the owner of the cow. Not the cow. Of course, going 100mph could be argued as 'contributory'.

I dunno, I ain't a lawyer.

Here's an aside (but not that far aside)....anyway, visiting Austria a few years back I spoke with an avid hunter.....deer and wild hogs. In that jurisdiction if a deer or a wild hog ran into the highway and got smacked by a car....well, the owner of the land the deer ran off of is liable for damages.

I tell that story at the deer hunting camps I visit in the fall and it invariably is a conversation stopper. There is always a long pause while the group is digesting the ramifications of that (most all of 'em are farmers who have deer on their lands).

And then when the first one recovers the conversations get really really lively.

I also tell them that that same Austrian hunter who told me the deer/car tale also said this: Land is leased to a 'Master' hunter who is then allowed to sub-lease to a certain number of other hunters. However, if wildlife....meaning deer and/or wild hogs ....do damage to the vineyard, corn, or whatever crop, then the primary leaseholder, the Master, is responsible for paying the farmer for the crop damage.

THAT...also sparks lively conversations.

 

[alang1216]

Speeding driver in Vermont hits cow standing in roadway, dies in crash RIP

My heart goes out to the cow and her family.

 

[Independent thinker]

Not very likely. The problem is that beef is sold by the pound and the heavier the cows are the slower they are likely to be.

Sounds like hamburger to me.

 

[Independent thinker]

Maybe. But steering away, he may have hit other traffic, buildings, trees or pedestrians. Going 100 mph doesn't give the driver much time to consider other options that might have been worse.

I'm not sure but I think he was making a joke about a steer.

 

[Independent thinker]

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Yeah, I think there possibly could be a negligence claim there. On the owner of the cow. Not the cow. Of course, going 100mph could be argued as 'contributory'.

I dunno, I ain't a lawyer.

Here's an aside (but not that far aside)....anyway, visiting Austria a few years back I spoke with an avid hunter.....deer and wild hogs. In that jurisdiction if a deer or a wild hog ran into the highway and got smacked by a car....well, the owner of the land the deer ran off of is liable for damages.

I tell that story at the deer hunting camps I visit in the fall and it invariably is a conversation stopper. There is always a long pause while the group is digesting the ramifications of that (most all of 'em are farmers who have deer on their lands).

And then when the first one recovers the conversations get really really lively.

I also tell them that that same Austrian hunter who told me the deer/car tale also said this: Land is leased to a 'Master' hunter who is then allowed to sub-lease to a certain number of other hunters. However, if wildlife....meaning deer and/or wild hogs ....do damage to the vineyard, corn, or whatever crop, then the primary leaseholder, the Master, is responsible for paying the farmer for the crop damage.

THAT...also sparks lively conversations.

I think if you were going over the speed limit, particularly a lot over the speed limit, the accident is 100% on you.

 

[MizMolly]

Poor cow