"The numbers are increasing obviously. I see them quite often coming and going from work," said Patricia Regular of Harbour Grace.
"The sides of the roads should be cleared so we can see them coming and there should be more moose hunting licences issued to reduce [moose] numbers on the highways."
Regular has written off two cars, but luckily she hasn't been seriously injured. Regular, who has suffered a stiff neck and "a few raw nerves," said all three accidents happened on her way to and from her job in Clarke's Beach.
Full story here. There's an audio interview on this page
7 comments:
If you choose to live where they live, how about driving slower? Stay off of the phone? Get a better car that can swerve and stop better? No? Then raise the speed limit in school zones since, as you have suggested, we only need a little more time to react...
how can she smile like that!? slow down, you twit.
there's a way to chase the animals away from the highways - by some reflecting & revolving little mirrors on each pole every ... yards (reflects the light, which scares 'em away)
if anyone from holland reads this blog - 't is the way they do it in the "veluwe"
i just can't find it on the net
& indeed, the fatty should drive a little slower too (if she looks at her feet, she's got 4 chins) (at least)
2/regards
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Wildspiegel_collage.jpg
is a picture of it - only works at night of course
Moose are not native to Newfoundland, they were introduced from New Brunswick in the early 1900s, so the whole "if you take over their habitat you should be prepared for consequences" argument that people like to use doesn't really work here. Moose have no natural predators in NFLD, and two breeding pairs a hundred years ago resulted in 120,000 moose now. They're everywhere, and hitting a moose even at a relatively slow speed (say 50km/h)is dangerous. Couple that with the difficulty in seeing them when the ditches are overgrown and the fact that moose generally don't just stand on the road waiting to be hit, they run at the road, and you've got a dangerous situation.
I can't imagine the government spending the money on a deterrent system that only works at night, however good it is, if they won't pay for fencing.
I'm sure that speeding and inattention is a factor in some collisions (particularly with this lady who, in another article, admits to "turning for a second" right before the accident) but I'm pretty sure that unkind comments about a person's physical appearance made under the emboldening influence of internet anonymity aren't going to help the situation.
kaukasian white people aren not native there either - only the word kaukasian itself refers to somewhere over on the european continent
so : as if mooses wouldn't have the right to hop around there too
:-)
Way to miss Flora's point, Anonymous Number 5.
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