Yeah, it was "just a squirrel", a "rodent", a "tree rat", but NORMAL people don't do stuff like that.
I say this as one who has hunted and eaten many squirrels. You don't just run over them in the street.
I find the easiest way to miss a squirrel is to aim for him. He’ll be somewhere else by the time you get to him. The only time I’ve hit them was when I was trying to miss.
I almost hit a squirrel once......I ended up driving across two lawns and a garden before it finally ran up a tree........
A number of years ago while on the way home from work on a divided 6 lane highway, there was a brood of panicked ducklings on the grass median whose mother had just gotten killed by a car. That was very sad to see.........
Several years ago I was driving down a residential street, and a suicidal squirrel decided it was a good time to play Frogger. There was no way to safely stop, so I kept on. Looked back in my rear view, and there the squirrel was standing up and looking around like he was doing a big “WTF?” I laughed. Good thing he ducked.