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When youre dealing with the potential to hit a moose, always stay alert.Lorraine Sommerfeld / Driving We recently showed you the best way to smack your car into wildlife, if you had no other choice. In fact, many Canadians already know hitting a moose is the most deadly wildlife scenario on many of our roads.Think youd be the one who could avoid it? This video from the CBC might change your mind. Clear conditions, driving under the speed limit, great visibility, and then POW. Warning: the video will make you flinch.In Newfoundland, within minutes of driving on any highway, youll notice huge signs letting you know how many crashes many fatal for both the moose and car occupants have occurred thus far in the year. Its a sobering realization that no matter how aware and prepared you think you might be, the possiblility should never be far from your thoughts.Newfoundland didnt have any moose until 1904, when four of the beasts were introduced to the island from New Brunswick. It was thought they could be used for trophy hunters, and to provide meat for workers in the forestry and mining industries. Estimates today suggest over 100,000 of the descendants of the original four now populate
Origin: Hitting a moose can leave you like ‘wincemeat’

A wall of American licence plates in a Maine bar.Dixipix / Deposit Photo A cost-saving measure enacted in 2018 in Newfoundland and Labrador is taking its toll on residents’ pocketbooks. As part of last year’s provincial budget, the government of Newfoundland decided to eliminate the practice of mailing out written notices for vehicle license renewals and switch to e-mailing them instead, saying the cut would save the province about half a million dollars per year. At the time, opponents of the change said it would cause a spike in people running around with invalid plates. Turns out they were right. From the months of July to December, a total of 1,509 people were convicted of driving with expired registration stickers, an increase of about 300 more than the average for the same time period over the previous four years. This means, of course, that the gubbmint is making money on two fronts: the initial savings from stopping the notifications; plus the funds collected from the extra convictions, at $250 a pop. Using those numbers, basic math teaches us the lapsed tags lined government coffers with an additional $75,000 or so. While it’s true that drivers are indeed responsible for the condition (and legality) of their vehicles, not everyone is in tune with the status of the stickers on their car’s license plates as you or I. After all, for many, it’s just one more bill to pay, on par with condo fees or the electric bill. The problem is compounded in this author’s home province of Newfoundland, where many communities rely on internet services with speeds not much higher than dial-up, if they have any access to internet at all. E-mailed reminders may not reach all of their intended recipients. Another quirk of the Newfoundland vehicle registry is that license plates are tied to the vehicle, not the person. With a few exceptions, a driver cannot move their tin tag from one car to another. The takeaway from all this, of course, is that one should pay attention to the expiration date of their car’s registration. Stay alert,
Origin: Eliminating mailed-out reminders is hitting some Newfoundland drivers in the wallet