I'm sorry you are sad about Gods little creatures. It shows you have a tender heart....even for a stinky skunk!
I stopped for a Salamander aka Newt, one time...even backed up to look at it.
I had my grand daughter in the back seat and an elderly lady I used to sit for.
So the two loving souls I had in my car were saved from what could have been a fatal accident...all because I stopped to look at this little creature crossing the road.
Because I took this time, a car got ahead of me in line at the traffic signal on the way into town.
After the light changed we traveled down the 4 lane road. A car was headed at a very high rate of speed and hit this very little old junky car, (Honda like)
It hit him head on....but the car was going so fast the motion made it spin around right into my path and missed me just by a fraction of an inch.
It was as if in slow motion this now bloodied screaming face passed in opposite direction right in front of me.
The little car in front of me was smashed into several pieces.
The driver badly injured....car parts went flying hitting my car making only little dents.
When it was all over I was so terrified my heart began skipping beats and I threw up. My 2 YO grand daughter was wide eye'd simply stated "uh oh" and the elderly woman (she had Alzheimers) mumbled a few lines as well.
Paramedics came to my car to see what they could do....I was way too shook up to drive...but I didnt need assistance. I needed a change of underpants though!
The traffic was tied up for hours.
My son and his wife had to pick up my grand daughter and my hubby picked me and granny up and drove us home....I left my car in a parking lot for a day.
I had a head on collision, same highway, back in '95 and anything close to an accident still freaks me out. That is why I drive a huge truck now.
I don't care about gas mileage! I don't go out that much.
We live out in the toolys....share the hiway with logging trucks and meth addicts in between a few horse trailers.
The girl who had driven at high rate of speed had taken some medication and had a severe reaction to it causing her to go into a daze with her foot on the accelerator. They deterimined she was driving well over 80 MPH in the middle turn lane. I was wondering what the heck she was doing passing up all the cars using the middle lane.
We all were lucky no one was killed. The guy in the small car would be OK....nothing major happened to him...just bad cuts and bruises a few broken bones....at least he was alive!
The girl only had cuts on her face and a few other minor injuries.
If I hadn't stopped for the Salamander, the other car would not have gotten in front of me.
I would have been hit head on...again! Who knows what would have happened to any of us? If we had been hit, would it have killed the girl because of my big car? Would I or my precious cargo have been injured?
I like to think of that Salamander as being my guardian angel that day...this accident could have been much worse than it was.
But we must never swerve our car to avoid hitting an animal because we could hit another car or pedestrian. It's sad to injure or kill a little animal, but these things happen sometimes. My sister and her husband hit a horse as they traveled back to the hospital to see their sick baby.
They were driving their hot little car going 60 MPH in the dark. It could have killed both of them...but a freaky thing happened....the hood of their car came off and sheilded their windsheild....the horse went up and over them.
The horse was killed instantly....totalled their car...but they walked away unharmed. It was sad about the horse...but horses have minds of their own and get out....our Stalion gets out once in awhile....but our new electric fence has so far kept him in.
But its sad to see dead and injured animals along side the road.
Deer always make me cry when I see them out here all the time. They are such gorgeous animals.
Blessings, Cheryl