Wildlife collisions damage vehicles near space center

Heard on: Brevard County Amateur Repeaters

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You'll be driving out towards like the Vehicle Assembly Building for instance.

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And there'll be five or six bay hawks standing on the side of the road.

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Instant deer.

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They look like they're waiting on an Uber ride or something.

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And you just never know when one of them's gonna hop out in front of you.

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And just yeah, I work 3rd shift out there and it's just constantly vehicles smashed up and some worse than.

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Yeah, and the way you go, the alligators out there, you'll be having them in the middle of the road.

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No, that's the.

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I had everything out there except an alligator.

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Not bragging about it because it'll probably happen.

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But never get run in with them.

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It's all those big hogs and the deer.

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And we had one of our employees the other day coming into work.

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She had a coyote with her little small smart car.

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Took the whole front end out of that vehicle.

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But that's a, you don't see that one too often with a coyote.

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But she had an alligator.

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We just got some undercarriage damage.

7/20/2026 06:30 AM

Traffic

Vab Rd, Titusville, FL 32780

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, radio traffic discusses repeated vehicle collisions with wildlife near the space center area, including deer, hogs, coyotes, and alligators in or near the roadway. In one recent incident, an employee reportedly struck a coyote with a small car, heavily damaging the front end, and another vehicle may have hit an alligator, causing undercarriage damage.