And isn't almost always a possum?
They are the most certain-road-kill creatures alive.
You know...I don't think I've ever seen a possum.
Back home, the typical road-kill critters are porcupines, skunks, raccoons, and of course squirrels. Sometimes turkeys.
Driving across country we also saw an armadillo...first I'd ever seen, and it were dead...
Now we know why the chicken crossed the road....
So the possum would follow and get itself kilt!
They've even written a song about it:
Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!