Nothing wrong with the brand of lights, they are good.
But, last night I was unfortunate ebough to hit a big, read BIG, red.
Just jumped out directly in front of me from a quite low side of the road.
I had plenty of light on the road and could see for a long way, but it appeared very quickly, jumping straight in front of me.
Well, no more Light Force and it broke the bullbar where the lights are mounted.
I was on the speed limit of 90Kms and in a Mack truck. No hope of stopping, and the last thing you want to do in any vehicle is swerve.
What really amazed me was that I went past the same spot a couple of hours later and looked for the remnants, and there was not a
sign anywhere, no carcass, ( it still might be in orbit) (bad joke), no broken pieces of Light Force, nothing.
I thought that this is very deceiving for night time travellers.
While driving along, I try and take notice of what's around, and a few dead carcasses along the side of the road are a good
sign to be carefull. But, in this case you would never know I hit a roo and the damage it caused, there was no
debris.
The night before, a car hit a roo in the same area, and had to be taken 140Kms back to town on a tow truck.
I guess what I am trying to say is, if you have to drive at night in the outback, be very carefull and keep the speed down.
I shudder to think what damage would have been done to my fouby if I had been in that last night, however, I never travel at more than 80kmh at night in roo country.
Even that's too fast sometimes, I have done lot's of K's at 60 when the roos are active.
A night with no wind and maybe a bit of moonlihgt are the worst times I reckon.
Don't be lulled into a false sense of security with not seeing any roos around in the scrub.
With the drought on, you just don't know where they are travelling to find water and food.
Dave