Animals/obstacle impacts & Bikes...ins & outs please

[Kawikyle]

So I was riding home when a pitbull runs into the road. I was doing about 40 when I hesitantly slammed on hoping the bloody thing would bolt away, but it didn't. I plowed into it at about 30-35(?)...so things un-blurr and I'm screaming in pain asking for an ambulance, dog laid out next to me, bike 20 feet or so distant from me. I felt my right arm come up to lift my scratched and scraped (to translucency) visor, when nothing happened, peering down seeing the feeble limb twitching and flailing on the floor. Oh dear. My dad picked up the bike and now i'm home from the hospital with a broken humerus... whats the deal with dogs & hitting them? has anyone ever had this before? what to do with head ons? :/
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Curse of the GPZ; Crash - new head & piston; MoT fail - warped discs & rotted exhausts; Slip - new indicators & handlebar; Crash - bought crash protectors; Blown over - bent subframe; Dogstrike - dead pitbull, broken humerus, buggered knee, smashed fairing...& still going.

[Alpha-9]

Poor doggy

Sounds like there wasn't much more you could do
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Fzr-600 1999

[Kal]

Evade as much as you can.

However sometimes the animal will still bolt into you - a friend of muine, MrK, got taken out by a fox deciding to bolt into his front wheel.

Not a lot of fox left after that.
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[Hokum]

As the dog was not under control wouldn't it be the owners reasonability for the accident?

Sad about the dog (I love dogs) but it shouldn’t be your fault…
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[Kawikyle]

ahh thats too bad :/ what does the highway code say bout bikes and animals? like i know cars are meant to just obliterate them but...what if it was a horse or something? like in my case if id have swerved could i not be liable for any accident? i couldnt have kneedowned it was a dual carriageway :/
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Curse of the GPZ; Crash - new head & piston; MoT fail - warped discs & rotted exhausts; Slip - new indicators & handlebar; Crash - bought crash protectors; Blown over - bent subframe; Dogstrike - dead pitbull, broken humerus, buggered knee, smashed fairing...& still going.

[Kawikyle]

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[Rogerborg]

BAM! Kobayashi Maru.

I can't imagine a better definition of "dangerously out of control in a public place". The dog was probably a hazard as well.