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 too live in the wilds of suffolk, pheasants are prity dence (but physically very light) and the roads here have many dead ones about. I would be very poor if I replaced car seats after every animal road incident.

I do try not ot hit them but they aren't very smart and often run the wrong way.

It's to do with the car seat having potentially absorbed part of the impact and being damaged. But this is a pretty low impact - it probably wouldn't have done anything to the car seat, even if a child had been in it at the time.

In general they say replace after any accident because better to be safe than sorry. I doubt this would count as an "accident".

She said pheasant not peasant

I’m a bit late to the thread but this really made me laugh 😂

A pheasant hit me once - does that count?

The butterfly bit made me LOL

As it happens, I also ran over a pheasant in my car when my twins were maybe about 6/7 months old. There was a bit of a bump, like going through a pot-hole.

It never even crossed my mind that the car seats would be affected.

Is there a sound engineering reason for changing a child seat after an accident?
Which part gets overloaded?

The safety and integrity of the seat is compromised, making it less safe for future journeys.

Should the seat occupant be replaced too, in case unseen flaws have been introduced?

Nearly spat my tea out (quite literally, have a cup in my hand) reading this thread.
I live rurally - hit a badger once when my DC were little - quite a thud but no damage to the car...not so sure the badger did so well sadly- never even occurred to me to replace the children's car seat though.

More recently hit a muntjac deer on the A1 (so 70mph) That made a right mess of my bumper. DD was in the car with me but not in a car seat anymore so not something I had to worry about. Don't think I'd have replaced her car seat if she'd still had one though as the bumper absorbed most of bambi's impact....
All joking aside, sorry OP! It's quite traumatic hitting an animal (especially if you're an animal lover like me) Hope you're ok!

Sorry @ThePineapplePrincess that phrase "integrity of the seat is compromised, making it less safe for future journeys." sounds like a marketing ploy. I suspect manufacture's b/s.
The bolts that I have seen look very large and over engineered, The straps over the child would hold the car up. Is there distortion of the plastic body or any sign the straps are likely to pull out?
Difficult to image any extreme loads in a situation where the occupants survive.

Amazing!

OP it sounds similar to hitting a pothole- I wouldn't replace the car seat after every one of those either.

Now hitting a peasant might be a different matter- though there are enough of them around.
The car seat does not need to be replaced.

You can suspect whatever you like, but as a mother to two children in ERF seats I’m going with the research and evidence over bullshit from a random MNer 🤷‍♀️

Pheasants are so stupid, but I do feel sorry for them and it’s never nice to hit any animal or bird.

when I was on a nature trip in southern Europe we spotted a pheasant and the Americans in the landrover were very excited!

I work in a nursery shop. Can you ask the brand to check it over for peace of mind?

Yes it is ridiculous. Some keepers take the time and effort to do some "dogging-in"

Rubbish. It's a bird.

How? A pheasant weighs a few pounds. The car will scarcely have slowed. Don't be silly.

🤣

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It’s got me to thinking, what’s the smallest bird you could hit and have to change the car seat?

Ostrich certainly.

Penguin?

Turkey?

Love this

I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant pluckers son and I’m only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes.

Frozen chicken, at 95 mph.