In Qatar, a young tiger escaped onto a major highway. The animal was filmed strolling through cars stopped in traffic, while occupants hurriedly closed their windows. The animal, thought to be an escaped pet, nonchalantly strolled off the roadway.
June 27, 2016
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In Qatar, a young tiger escaped onto a major highway. The animal was filmed strolling through cars stopped in traffic, while occupants hurriedly closed their windows. The animal, thought to be an escaped pet, nonchalantly strolled off the roadway.
In the US three elephants caused confusion after they escaped from handlers at a circus and the animals damaged a number of vehicles before they could be recaptured. According to bystanders, the elephants rampaged past several vehicles in a parking lot, tearing off mirrors, damaging bodypanels and breaking windows.
How to avoid cars and animals meeting head-on has taxed road and highway designers for years.
Many schemes exist but some road and overpass designs are more successful than others.
Fencing off a roadway is one method of preventing animals, usually large ones such as bears and moose, from wandering into the paths of oncoming vehicles. Another way to keep animals, and people, safe is to build an animal-friendly overpass where the surface appears as a continuation of the nearby landscape – hopefully an e
Insults at the A British pensioner was recently involved in an unusual incident when trundling his mobility scooter down the middle of a busy road. The driver of a vehicle wishing to overtake was unable to do so safely at first and when he remonstrated with the pensioner, was given a rude gesture and a string of insults in return. The incident was captured on the driver’s dashcam device and it appeared that the pensioner was extremely drunk at the time. Meanwhile young horse riders were the target of a
