[djf]

Yup. Deader than a doornail, right on the center yellow line.

I was the luckiest man alive. Doin about 65-70 on a road in north-central CA.

Never saw her by the side of the road... first time I saw her, she was to my left, in the road ahead of me, very close. Saw her take one step then raise her left paw like she was gonna strike, basically hit her in the head on my lower left bumper, spun her around so bad she slammed into my driver side door...

I was shakin like a leaf, drove on about a quarter mile, stopped and got my breath, and went back.

Hauled her out of the road, took a bunch of pics and kept going. Coulda throwed her in my trunk, a carcass like that would probably get me 5G’s at a taxidermist, but didn’t think about it at the time.

[ExSoldier]

Wow, you were lucky. An impact like that might've caused you to wreck. Happens all the time. I'm glad you dragged the carcass out of the road. Obviously you prevented another accident or maybe saved the life of some poor biker. But also, I hate the disrespect it shows to the animal to have it's body slowly ground to dust by man's machines. Pulling it out of the road puts the body back in the normal cycle of nature as carrion.