Last year a squirrel darted in front of my car, there was nothing I could do, I saw what happened in my rear view mirror, I was sick to my stomach.
They used to teach us in Driver’s Ed many years ago that if you can avoid an animal in the street, you can avoid a child. Now that we’re being told to run over animals in the street, how long until we’re told to run over children? They’re just un-aborted fetuses, after all.
I will always hit the brakes to avoid an animal if I can. Some years ago, I was injured and nearly killed as a passenger in a small car when a deer ran in front of it and was hit-the driver was only doing 35 mph-glad it wasn’t 55. So when I see people being advised not to swerve/stop for animals on the road, I can only assume they don’t mean deer, hogs, etc-more than one person has been killed in a collision with a large animal like that-it is safer to try to avoid it...