Bird Strike

[Keith K.]

Results of a Quail vs. a Whelen Liberty. Total damage amounted to a new lens, LIN6 module and module holder. The bird was DOA. While I was repairing the lightbar, I found bird seed throughout the inside of the lightbar...

 

[fireball3]

Impressive damage for a bird, it had to have the head hard like a stone.


Cyril

 

[Tlauden]

Haha wow.... does insurance cover that?

 

[jswwjw]

sooooooooooo, how fast was the vehicle traveling?...........oh that's right. 55! :-x

 

[ff168577]

Several years ago, I had a wreck on the Pa turnpike that involved a goose. It killed the driver of the van, leading him up a hill in to a bunch of trees, heavily pinning his wife(passenger), and 7 of her students that were traveling to Harrisburg for a week for a science convention.

 

[Carlos SpicyWeiner]

thats pretty intense

 

[Flashguy]

Did you have to land on the Hudson? :haha:

 

[Keith K.]

The Officer was traveling just over 65 MPH along the coast line... so no water landing for the bird. We hit a lot of wildlife at night...

 

[FreshDave04]

Lake Mead coast line?

 

[Keith K.]

Lake Mead coast line?

Pyramid Lake... Northern Nevada.

 

[FreshDave04]

Pyramid Lake... Northern Nevada.

Ah, I gotcha. Glad the officer is safe! That's one heck of a hit to take.

 

[emtanderson51]

That is awesome....only you...lol

 

[justavillain]

Birds can do a lot of damage. My dad lost the carriage top on his caddy to a bird.


Looks like the Lightbar held up pretty well.

 

[Abacus]

Any dash cam footage? You should see what a kangaroo does hitting the front fender.

 

[JazzDad]

... I found bird seed throughout the inside of the lightbar...

Partially digested bird seed! uke:

 

[PJD642]

Hmph. Sissy lightbars they're selling nowadays. Back when I was a project cop I nailed a pigeon with a Streethawk attached to a caprice doing well over 80. Streethawk never flinched.


(And yeah, we needed the big engines in those Caprices to get over 80 with that giant brick wall on top of the cruiser. That was back in the days with speakers in the middle of the lightbar, hearing be damned!)

 

[calebsheltonmed23]

Hmph. Sissy lightbars they're selling nowadays. Back when I was a project cop I nailed a pigeon with a Streethawk attached to a caprice doing well over 80. Streethawk never flinched.

(And yeah, we needed the big engines in those Caprices to get over 80 with that giant brick wall on top of the cruiser. That was back in the days with speakers in the middle of the lightbar, hearing be damned!)

The angled dome definitely helps it deflect the bird...if the dome was flat I don't think it would have survived. lol

 

[NoVAFed]

Hmph. Sissy lightbars they're selling nowadays. Back when I was a project cop I nailed a pigeon with a Streethawk attached to a caprice doing well over 80. Streethawk never flinched.

(And yeah, we needed the big engines in those Caprices to get over 80 with that giant brick wall on top of the cruiser. That was back in the days with speakers in the middle of the lightbar, hearing be damned!)

What, I can't hear you?


You used to know your siren was loud when that Setina cage would start to vibrate from the siren over it. Wonder what else we didn't know or think about is going to come back and bite us?


:duh:

 

[RyanZ71]

Is it just me or is Whelen using different types of plastic now compared to what I am used to on their older bars? You could hit those things with a hammer and the lens would not shatter.

 

[firefighter112]

Hmph. Sissy lightbars they're selling nowadays. Back when I was a project cop I nailed a pigeon with a Streethawk attached to a caprice doing well over 80. Streethawk never flinched.

(And yeah, we needed the big engines in those Caprices to get over 80 with that giant brick wall on top of the cruiser. That was back in the days with speakers in the middle of the lightbar, hearing be damned!)

Maybe that is why they called it the "streethawk"


Had a deer the other night that wanted to play chicken with my Ram. Luckily, I was going slow enough but I think he saw my bull bar on the front and thought twice about it.