On our 2001 trip to Australia, Lisa noticed that various road signs warning of wombats made the pictured wombat appear to be smiling. I think it's because the womabt knows, tohugh it will likely die immediately if you hit it, you're not going to do so without significant damage to your car if not yourself: Australians in freak wombat crash: Two men in south-eastern Australia have survived unharmed after their truck hit a wombat before crashing off the side of a bridge.

Police have said the airborne vehicle then landed in the top of a tree above a river.

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The vehicle careered violently out of control, smashed through a guard railing and over the side of a bridge.

The men and their truck then landed in a tree.

After some precarious teetering, they crashed back to earth, falling about 20 feet (6 metres).

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