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Video: Kangaroo takes out cyclist
Welcome to the latest instalment of our long-running series ‘cyclists taken out by kangaroos’.
We’ve had a former Australian cricketer brought down by kangaroo while cycling home; a collision in which the kangaroo was sadly killed; a kangaroo who clipped a cyclist’s helmet while leaping across him; and a kangaroo who attacked two cyclists on an off-road trail.
They don’t even need to be mobile to cause problems. We’ve also reported on four cyclists who were hospitalised when they hit the carcass of a dead kangaroo.
This latest collision is your classic ‘leaping across the road’ incident with the kangaroo landing on its feet and bounding off into the undergrowth.
The cyclist apparently fared less well.
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“Car drivers are not the only threat to cyclists in Australia,” writes video uploader, JussarianLives. “This was an incident on a bike ride my friends and I did on Australia Day, 2018.
“We were riding in the Boonah region. My friend suffered a subluxation of the AC on her right shoulder (where the 'roo hit her) and a laceration on her left knee, but has a laugh about it now, two days later (and doesn't mind me sharing it here).”
Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.
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Obviously this is a very funny clip, and an incident I would wish on a number of my cycling mates, but it does give me cause for concern over my Tesla Model S.
Apparently the self driving function on the Tesla relies on sensors which can detect movements in two planes but not three (a kangaroo travels forwards, sidewards, and up and down, as the video shows).
This presents a very serious risk, clearly.
Luckily i live in The Netherlands where kangaroos are scarce, and the range on an electric car is too crap to get anywhere near Australia, but its the principle isnt it?
Hadn't realised such limitations applied to the Tesla, makes the car completely unsafe, thinking sheep, dear and parkour enthusiasts...
I think you'll be fine. Just be sure you never drive it in any environment that has more than 2 dimensions.
So that's why they have their helmet law. When we get kangaroos in this country, I'll vote for one here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz47ZFCat1g
That's a wallaby.
can't fool you!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a2/6f/53/a26f53a5acdf9d7f6ab13ecb87a3db67...
Surely a Channel 5 documentary " When Kangaroos attack" is only a matter of time.