To not replace car seat after hitting a pheasant at 38 mph?

[Hhhapp17]

Guidance says any accident above 20mph means you must replace the car seat. Is it this same in this situation? Don’t really want to pay out again for another one.

I wouldn't class hitting a pheasant as "an accident" TBH. It's sometimes very hard not to hit them...

Did you panic, swerve and hit a tree after hitting the pheasant? Assuming you didnt the seat will be fine

How big was the pheasant?!

I'm assuming you didn't feel an impact when you hit the pheasant? The car didn't deviate from its path?

I don't think it counts as an accident.

I’m assuming you didn’t crash after hitting it. So nope.

YABU. Of course you need to replace it

Was it a crash or basically an emergency stop? Was there damage to the car? The insurance company would say legally it needs replacing.

Surely hitting a pheasant isn’t an accident in that sense? You’d barely feel it.

Don't be daft. How would the front of the car squishing a pheasant damage a car seat in the back of the vehicle? Where would this end? Replacing the car seat because you ran over a hedgehog? Hit a butterfly on the motorway?

I don't think hitting a pheasant counts as an accident.

Hitting a peasant on the other hand......

I don’t think this counts as an accident. Is there damage to the car? If not you’re probably fine.

I lived in the wilds of Suffolk when ds was a baby, I hit fair few pheasants, never occurred to me to change his car seat.

A friend of mine once reversed into the wall on her drive and insisted on replacing all 3 of the car seats in the
car. That wouldn’t have occurred to me, either and I thought it was overkill for a little slow bump.

The force the unfortunate pheasant exerted on your car would have been less than someone slamming a door or dumping a heavy bag in the boot.

Pheasant? Nah.

Cow? Yes.

Elephant? Definitely.

No one on here can tell you. This is a question for the manufacturer of the car seat. They often have specific guidelines as to what they consider a crash.

Unless you hit the world's biggest pheasant surely you didn't come to a complete stop, you would have felt it but not to any degree to cause a problem.

Use common sense.

Unless the pheasant was actually an emu I think you're okay.

She said pheasant not peasant.
No op, unless there’s significant impact damage to the front of the far and I doubt there would be. Most pheasants are low to the ground, poor flyers and by the time they’ve gathered enough momentum to lift off they’re only at radiator grill height.
I’ve hit a few, the most memorable one was stuck inside the front bumper under the radiator. I didn’t even know I’d hit it.

I also wouldn’t class hitting a pheasant as an accident though I’m sure the pheasant would disagree. It’s all about the impact.

Did you mean to say peasant? This is MN afterall.

If it was a pheasant, unless you hit it with the car seat at 38mph, you'll be fine.

Unless said child seat was cable tied to the front of you car at the time of hitting a pheasant you’re being ridiculous.

Sorry but this actually made me laugh out loud, all I can see In my head now is a woman swinging a car seat at a pheasant 😂😂

I think you need to use common sense. Someone went into the back of me on a roundabout, as I was accelerating, hardly felt it, just some paint scraped off the bumper. No, I did not replace the damned car seat. It gets to a point when things are getting ridiculous.

No, it wouldn't even occur to me (lax mam 🤣).

Op I wouldn't replace for hitting a pheasant.

I've also read the difference between minor bump and accident is did the air bags go off.