One cannot automatically assume that he was speeding. 25 -30 mph is sufficient for major damages, plus these newer cars all have plastic fascias for bumpers instead of steel. While I lament the loss of the dog, it should have been under the owner’s complete control. Yes, I know animals are unpredictable and will do such things as this, but you have to consider that the driver of the vehicle was not responsible for the damages to his vehicle. Had this been an inanimate object rolling out of the garage and into the street, the home owner would have been just as liable for damages. The fact that it was a dog, and the dog was killed, injects a cloud of feelings of sympathy to obscure the logical reasoning of responsibility of the dog owner.......
If the impact with the squishy 13 pound dog sent pieces of the plastic bumper flying into the metal radiator at a speed sufficient to damage the radiator badly enough that it had to be replaced, the car was going way, way, way too fast for a residential street. It’s sad that the dog died, but it could just as easily have been a child, and that would have been a lot sadder. Parents should keep their children under control too, but lapses are inevitable, and that’s why we have low speed limits for residential streets.