The White Rabbit of Crank near Rainford/ St Helens is a simlar tale according to Kath. It jumps out into the road and causes accidents. Someone planted skunk seeds down on the path and Kath and her mates used to go down and smoke it. One night she says she saw Bugs Bunny up there.
]I take it you won't stoned too Shaun? 
Theres another similar story about Skelton Ellers the road between Guisborough and Skelton. Its supposed to be a boggart which is a type of sprite/ goblin/ fairy folk type thing. Its basically a black shadow of a person that runs alongside your car and tries to make you crash. My mum cliamed that some of the orderlys from Guisborough general saw it when she was working there in asmin in the 60's. They were on their way to work from Skelton and almost carshed. They were so freaked out that by it that I think they were sent home becasue they were in a state of shock.
Of course they were also known to be using purple hearts (basically speed) so theres a good chance that they worse for wear.
[color=#8000BF]Are you sure you weren't speeding Shaun?

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Myself and two friends spent part of an evening running away from giant badgers in Guisborough woods that were out to get us... we had necked some purple dubloon acid tabs though.

About 5 hours later we were running for our lives from poachers. Bastards nearly caught us too. Good old Guisborough and its Deliverance complex.
Seriously though any stories like this one are pretty good stuff for NGI, perhaps we should start a local mythology/ folk lore thread, these things could be really easy to spend a night looking at, another cheap and easy outdoor investigation.