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Originally Posted by Trakehner
Was reading an article about US highway 27 in northern Florida(near Lake Jackson). In one year just on a 2 mile stretch of the US 27 over 400 turtles got hit. I doubt anyone on here ever hit a turtle, but this got me wandering, if you hit a turtle what are the chances the shell will damage the tire?
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I have never, to my knowledge, hit a turtle, but I've seen plenty of them on the roads around here. When circumstances permit, we get the unsquashed ones off the road.
This gopher tortoise was hunkered down between the two southbound lanes of the very same highway 27, not far from Lake Jackson. That section of 27 is, as you noted, a less than optimal place to be a turtle.