[suprjami]

When driving from Kalgoorlie (a remote mining town in the middle of the desert) to Perth (the capital city in that state) one must complete the 6 hour drive across featureless plains during the daylight hours only.

Trying to drive at night will result in kangaroos approaching your headlights, then your passenger vehicle is hitting a 200lb (90kg) mammal whilst driving at 70mph (110kmh) which is never going to end well.

[Cub3]

And the problem is, because they're so tall they don't even hit the crumple zone, they go straight through the windsheild

[triggercut]

I once (stupidly) drove through (unfamiliar) country Victoria to catch a morning flight at Tullamarine. I was about 3 hours drive away so I started at 3 am.

By 4am I was driving 60-70km/hr along a single carriageway when suddenly my car was flanked on either side by a mob of a dozen roos matching my speed pushing me to the center of the road. If my window was open I could have easily stroked the head of the nearest one.

I knew they couldn't keep up for long so I just tried to match their speed before they eventually started to slow and peel off, at which point I took off in front.

Was probably a couple of minutes but felt like half an hour.

Had a car been coming in the other direction we'd probably all be dead.

Moral of the story; Get a hotel.

[tomellis271]

Yowch! Even with bull bars, that's never going to be fun

[rangibaby]

Aren't they called roo bars in Oz?

[ehnto]

Both, depends on your pedigree I think. I hear either as much as the other.