Have you ever run over an animal?

Twice, I am afraid. One was a fox, the other and more distressingly was a cat.

I killed both animals outright, without very much external injury, and moved the corpses into the verge where they would not be crushed or present a hazard to other road-users.

There are moves to make notifying to the Police such accidents to cats, as is so with dogs. I don't know if it's happened but I did in fact telephone the Police about that poor puss, saying I knew I didn't need tell them but they will likely be searching for it.

Also once accidentally killed a sparrow in flight: I found it stuck in the radiator-grille when I arrived at my destination. I buried it.

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A lot of motorists comment on far fewer insects crushed on their windscreens nowadays, a sign of seriously reduced invertebrate populations. That is true but another factor a friend suggested to me is that very many escape death because modern cars are sufficiently aerodynamic for the slipstream to carry the little animals safely up over the roof.