[Closed] I'm a bad cat murdering man #drivingthread#

Ffs you hit someone's pet of course you should stop. Can't understand why you didn't slow down when you first saw the poor thing.

I can't believe you just m(e)owed it down!

It sounds more like a pheasant than a cat from the behaviour.
It's a shame but these things happen. No need to beat your self up about it but it is puurfectly normal to feel guilt.

I'd not have stopped either if I knew it was a cat. A cat [could it drive] not only wouldn't have stopped it would have swerved to make sure it hit it and then reversed over it a few times.

Once you’ve flattened it they go through the letter box.

Paws for thought.
I would stop to make sure moggy was actually dead, not suffering.

If you didn't stop, how do you know it was dead and not just really badly injured?

If you didn’t stop, how do you know it was dead and not just really badly injured?

True it could have been catatonic.

Those who would have stopped, would you have stopped for a pigeon, a rabbit, a rat?

Hhmmm. Yeah. I’d find it difficult to reconcile that particular set of actions.

Shock can cause us to make atypical snap decisions.

But you are right to feel bad. I’d be ashamed.

Oh well, at least it wasn’t a child that you hit and ran?

Dude I is disappoint in my beer brewing buddy.

You should have stopped man!!

This is a bad cat - sure you measure up ?

Does my moral compass need a reset?

Needs a lot more than that.

I hit a pup once that bolted from a garden right out in front of me. It got a hefty skelp, let out a sickening yelp and it ran away into the woods. Spent about 8 hours looking for it with no joy. Felt terrible but nothing I could have done to avoid it. Poor thing likely curled up and died somewhere in agony.

A cat though? Meh.

Very similar experience here a few years back. Cat ran across, stopped, I slowed, then sped up again thinking it was safe, and the little bugger ran right under the wheels.

I did stop and check, and it was definitely an ex-cat. There was brains and stuff 🤮 I'd have needed a shovel. No houses nearby to knock on, so I drove on. Felt guilty, but shit happens.

In all seriousness, if you run over a cat or dog, yes, the circumstances might easily have been out of your control.

At least try to own the situation: take the remains to the police or a vet so that the chip can be scanned and the owner informed. It might be an unloved stray or somebody’s heart could be breaking for months and years.

At least try to own the situation: take the remains to the police or a vet so that the chip can be scanned and the owner informed. It might be an unloved stray or somebody’s heart could be breaking for months and years.

This. Take it to a vet. Give it some respect.

: take the remains to the police

I'm sure they'll be thrilled with that. Better scrape up the pheasants and badgers while you're at it and drop a whole sack off.

I've said this before on here but our local town facebook page has about 10k members. If a kid is run down it's all "Youth of today and bloody kids running out in front of cars, hope the driver is OK." If a cat gets hit all the worlds rage is channelled into finding the driver and having them ended. It's actually a bit scary. It happens often because cats like to get run over.

Honestly, if I ran over a cat I'd keep driving all the way to Mexico. I can't deal with having a hundred mad cat ladies after me. I'd never get served in the local shops or anything.

I've wondered myself what I'd do if I ran over a cat and it was a dead bloody mess. You can't just go randomly knocking on doors holding up a bloody corpse, the nearest vet is a few miles away (and not open if on my morning commute) and I'm not sure I'd want it in my car anyway. Probably even worse if it's still alive, I'd knock on a few houses then but if it's 6:30am that's not going to go down well so am I supposed to just ditch work and try and it keep it alive until the vet opens (I don't know cat CPR)? Who then pays the vet bill if it can't be traced?

I think I'd have stopped to check if it was alive (then vets if so) Tbh, but in my limited experience they are either dead in the road or prove difficult to find with injuries.

A few years ago at an old address, a woman knocked on our door to tell me she had hit a cat on the road. I told her that we didn't have a cat, and from her vague description I didn't know who's cat it might have been. She got really put out, wanted me to take responsibility for finding the owner and telling them what had happened. There was no body, cat had run off. She pointed out that she had told me what had happened, the cat's owner would want to know and I should do it as "I lived there". When I declined and suggested that it was more her responsibility if a search was going to be launched, she thought I was a cat-hating monster and gave me the full high-horse treatment while I stood baffled in my own doorway.

They sleep 22 hours a day. It’s only two more hours.

It might be an unloved stray or somebody’s heart could be breaking for months and years.

Exactly. Clearly some cat haters on here but if you own an animal and it goes missing it i a horrible experience. Not great to hear that it got run over but at least you know and are not left wondering where it is, it if is injured slowly dying for a few days etc,.

At least you've provided some moronic entertainment to a few here so not a total loss eh? Yes you should have stopped and put it on the side of the road. It's not nice for the owners to find a treasured pet spread over a square metre of tarmac.

I’ll probably be labelled a cat hating serial killer for this....and yes we have a cat.

If you own a cat and let it roam free, then expect it not to come home at some point and don’t get on your high horse with the person who runs it over.

If you love it so much, lock it in the house and make it a house cat.

The argument that cats like to roam free and shit where ever they please does not pass the responsibility of cat ownership onto other people. Its your pet.

Have a big thumbs up UncleFred.

Agree with UncleFred.
I remember yonks ago, driving into Portsmouth and someone had run over a cat approaching the old Rudmore Roundabout (OP will know where I mean). He got out of his car to do something with the cat, but had run over it's head and it was still moving and twitching. Poor bloke couldn't touch it and stood there looking shocked. You wouldn't want that eh STM?!

If you own a child and let it roam free, then expect it not to come home at some point and don’t get on your high horse with the person who runs it over.

If you love it so much, lock it in the house and make it a house child.

The argument that children like to roam free does not pass the responsibility of child ownership onto other people. Its your child.

Doesn't sound quite so good does it....

OK so you're putting a child and a cat on equal terms? Also you can at least try and teach a child about road safety, cats just won't listen...

Christ some of you have some really weird thoughts about cats. Yes you should have absolutely stopped and checked if it was alive or not, and then taken it to the nearest vet. YOU ran it over, it shouldn't be up to anyone else to clean up your mess.

And for everyone blaming cats for getting run over, what the hell is wrong with you? Take some responsibility.

If you own a child and let it roam free, then expect it not to come home at some point and don’t get on your high horse with the person who runs it over.
If you love it so much, lock it in the house and make it a house child.
The argument that children like to roam free does not pass the responsibility of child ownership onto other people. Its your child.
Doesn’t sound quite so good does it…

You're one of those "Furbaby" people aren't you? Children are not cats. Cats are not children.

My friend's child fell off a roof recently and was badly injured. The doctor said his quality of life wouldn't be great and the best course of action was to put him down. I think it was the right thing to do.

Changing words in sentences is fun.

Changing words in sentences is fun.

Changing underwear in Tesco is kinky

I’ll probably be labelled a cat hating serial killer for this….and yes we have a cat.

If you own a cat and let it roam free, then expect it not to come home at some point and don’t get on your high horse with the person who runs it over.

If you love it so much, lock it in the house and make it a house cat.

The argument that cats like to roam free and shit where ever they please does not pass the responsibility of cat ownership onto other people. Its your pet.

Cats would be considered vermin if they weren't so pretty, and I own one! (by proxy, couldn't say no to wife). Am already considering giving neighbours a gift of a supersoaker to keep the little fleabag away from their bird table.

I also agree with Uncle Fred, let your animal run free, reap the consequences. I sometimes wonder how the cat crowd would feel if all dog owners started giving their dogs the run of the neighbourhood...

Back on topic though, I guess I would have crawled past the cat in question rather than accelerating back up to squashing speed, but agree with OP that the prospect of getting drawn into some expensive melodrama because somebody else's pet ran under your wheels would be a bit off-putting...

I’ve said this before on here but our local town facebook page has about 10k members. If a kid is run down it’s all “Youth of today and bloody kids running out in front of cars, hope the driver is OK.” If a cat gets hit all the worlds rage is channelled into finding the driver and having them ended. It’s actually a bit scary. It happens often because cats like to get run over.

Very much this. I reckon missing / hit cat posts is 50% off our local Facebook group's content. I remember that someone saw a cat get hit at 11 pm at night on 60mph A road and they rallied round to get the pitchforks out and track down the driver that didn't stop! Who the hell would stop in the dark at that time.

Doesn’t sound quite so good does it….

Mad Cat People are strange
Besides, if you are going down that route I hope you stop for every squirrel/badger/pheasant/rat/ fly/God's creature that you hit!

Besides, if you are going down that route I hope you stop for every squirrel/badger/pheasant/rat/ fly/God’s creature that you hit!

I'd stop for a horse....or a moose

If you've ever travelled to Africa you'll know that you can substitute the word "cat" with the word "human" throughout this thread. Driving through Lagos it's really upsetting when you see people squashed flat or spread all over the highway and you wonder whether they have children who will be sitting at home that night wondering why Mummy or Daddy is late, then never knowing what happened to them. Kinda puts dead moggies into perspective.

No excuse not to stop. Regardless of the law or the fact that cats are daft it deserves you to care about it enough to at least check that it is in fact dead or that your intervention could not save it or prevent it unnecessary suffering. Add the human connection and that it is someone's pet and imo that adds an another level of thoughtfulness required on your part - at the very least to place it at the side of the road so the 'owners' (not sure you ever own a cat - at one level they own you, at another they are a loved member of the family unit not a possession - going over the moors in the highlands at 4.30am currently is a deer/car interface waiting to happen) don't have to scrape body parts off the road after it dies and gets run over further even if you havn't got the cojones to find and inform the owners.

And yes I would and have done similar for wild animals - it's not their fault I'm flying about in a metal box that they can't comprehend the movements of. I'm not going to stop using my metal box (actually I do try to avoid using it around dawn in rural areas if possible) but it's right and proper to mitigate the damage done to some extent.

So in summary for me at least your moral compass needs a smart tap to check it's not got stuck with self orientated or lethargy crud.

Changing words in sentences is fun

Apologies in advance to parents. Sorry
Driving home from work doing probably 25mph round a fairly tight corner on BH monday afternoon and a child bolts across the road.
Silly thing stops approx 1 foot from the hedge on the other side of the road and sits down and looks at me driving in its direction.
As I am about 2mtr away it darts back across whence it came. Hit brakes hard but there was the unfortunate bumpity bump as the kid took a hit.

Then he drives away while an Audi tries to flash him down. And keeps going. You really are a thick idiot if you think that's even remotely similar or likely!!

Besides, if you are going down that route I hope you stop for every squirrel/badger/pheasant/rat/ fly/God’s creature that you hit!

I don't know many people with pet squirrels and flies so see those as wild animals with no owner/anyone that cares for and looks after them.

Killing somebodies pet and leaving it to die slowly on the roadside is simply not the same.

leaving it to die slowly

I've told you a million times etc

see those as wild animals with no owner/anyone that cares for and looks after them.

Killing somebodies pet and leaving it to die slowly on the roadside is simply not the same.

So there's no value in a wild cat then?

On the flip side I'd be much more bothered if I hit a wild rabbit than a pet cat. It's a wild animal with zero appreciation or protection from the impacts of a society from which it gains nothing. A pet can be kept home, could be trained and benefits daily from the cosy world it lives in.

As for cleaning it up the foxes, sea gulls and crows will be along soon enough to do that.

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No excuse not to stop

I ran over a ginger moggy that chose to run the wrong way, from the way the wheels bumped and the amount of times it bounced of the underside of the van I guessed it wasn't well.
3:30am going through a village and it was very foggy so I couldn't even reference where on the road I'd hit it. I'm not knocking on random doors at that time of the morning, the people who didn't own the cat would've had a pop at me, and the cat owners (if I'd found them) probably would've as well.

So yeah, I think that I had a reasonable excuse not to stop. I'm also a cat owner and would be gutted if she didn't come home, although she did go missing for a week and came home with a broken jaw. It is a risk you take when you let your pets roam free like a wild animal.

In the 70s, when dogs could also roam free, our dog was run over and left to die slowly by the roadside. He was a 13 year old mongrel and had lived a full life of Leigh Park scrapping. The driver did phone the number on the tag and told us, but they didn't wait around, we forgave the cowardly scum bag.

Hit brakes hard but there was the unfortunate bumpity bump as the kitty took a hit.

so I gather it'd be a bit of a hike for you, but if you fancy driving up and down our road a few times, we've a couple at least in their late teens who've well outstayed their welcome.

(Though unfortunately they don't much like going outside the garden these days, and tend to focus their shitting and pissing to in and around the broad vicinity of the litter trays.)

So there’s no value in a wild cat then?

Dead? Some nutritional value for the magpies, I suppose.
Let's face it, nobody is going to be happy about their cat being dead whether you turn up at their door with the evidence or not. If it is injured then you can at least present them with the opportunity to spend a couple of grand down the vets. And maybe a bill for having your tracking checked. If I remember correctly cats have no status in law, whereas dogs at least did when there were licences for the little shite machines.

If it had a collar I'd try and make contact with the owner otherwise I'd just move it to the side of the road. Realistically what else could you do?

When I was child I came out of the house and caught a large dog curling one off in our front garden. Yelled at it and the dog scarpered into the road, straight in front of a Renault 16. There was a loud bang and a yelp and the sound of broken glass as the car screeched to a stop. The driver got out and looked around but there was no sign of the dog, just some fur stuck to the tarmac. The front of the car was quite badly damaged with a headlight smashed and the grille stoved in.

A few days later I was out on my Raleigh Roadster when I spotted the dog at a farm. It was covered in scars and walking very stiffly, in pain. I stopped to look at it and the dog bared its teeth and growled at me - I guess it remembered me as the reason for its accident. Poor thing.

If it had a collar I’d try and make contact with the owner otherwise I’d just move it to the side of the road. Realistically what else could you do?

Take some responsibility for the situation and bring it to the vet to get its microchip scanned.

I guessed it wasn’t well.

For me guessed is not good enough. How long would it have taken out of your life to pull over and double check? A minute? I suppose the problem is would you have it in you to finish off an animal (wild, domesticated or a pet) if you did go back. I've finished off a sheep I found in the hills that had fallen off a cliff and was writhing in pain. Also a deer that I found at the side of the road in a similar state. Very unpleasant but in both cases I think it was the right thing to do.

At 3.30am I wouldn't expect you to set up a police accident scene and forensically search for a potential owner but I still its reasonable to convert a guess into a know and deliver the coup de grace if necessary.

As an aside - as an ex cat owner I never understand why other folk let their cats out after dark - significantly increases their potential so become road kill and significantly increases their potential to maime the local wildlife population.

I am also a bad cat murdering man.

Driving up my street having just turned in (so 15mphish) some daft moggy, shoots out from my left and goes straight under my wheels.

Drove a bit up the road (kid in car) and went and started knocking on doors and quickly identified the owner.

Apparently the cat had form for running front of cars and had probably run out of lives.

Did I feel bad for the cat?   a bit, looked like a shit way to go.

Did I feel bad for the owners? Not really, as per UncleFred's post.

No idea why it's socially acceptable to purchase an animal (in this case an apex predator) and just let it roam free shitting in peoples gardens and eating the wildlife.

Years ago when I was a kid my Dad told me he'd seen a dog get hit by a Vauxhall Victor, the dog ran off & the bumper fell off the car. He said he'd never buy a Vauxhall after seeing that.

Also a deer that I found at the side of the road in a similar state.

Have you noticed when you see a dead Red deer on the side of the road there's usually bits of car strewn about as well?
Sorry, no cat input.

Have you noticed when you see a dead Red deer on the side of the road there’s usually bits of car strewn about as well?

That was also me years ago - did a lot of damage. Could not find the poor deer for ages though and had limped off into a ditch and died.

Not sure what your point is mind.

Have you noticed when you see a dead Red deer on the side of the road there’s usually bits of car strewn about as well?

I know a lass who spent a couple of months in hospital after hitting a deer on a dual carriageway

Take some responsibility for the situation and bring it to the vet to get its microchip scanned.

And if it's 06:15?

Some posts here show worryingly low levels of empathy and compassion.

Regardless of your personal views it’s a living creature who’s life deserves respect.  If it’s a pet it’s owners feelings deserve respect too.

If you injure any animal - try and make sure it’s either ok, take it to a vet - or if beyond help, Don’t leave it suffering and try not to add needless worry to others.

It doesn’t take a lot to be humane - but some on this thread seem to find it so.

Realistically what else could you do?

Surely it's obvious!

And if it’s 06:15?

Shockingly there are out of hours services for this exact situation with vets so you don't have an excuse I'm afraid. You'll just have to let your morning coffee go cold while you deal with the animal you just killed. It's the least you can do.

If you injure any animal – try and make sure it’s either ok, take it to a vet – or if beyond help, Don’t leave it suffering and try not to add needless worry to others.

Advice that most domestic cats ignore whilst they're cruelly murdering the local wildlife purely for amusement

Won't anyone think of the baby robins?

Advice that most domestic cats ignore whilst they’re cruelly murdering the local wildlife purely for amusement

Don't go all lowest common denominator. That never ends well. Before you know it you'll be curling one down in your neighbour's garden "well if it's good enough for a cat, it's good enough for me'.

Anyway, I thought you WERE a cat?

Anyway, I thought you WERE a cat?

That's just an excuse I use for shitting in my neighbours garden before murdering them for my own amusement

I've killed two cats and one dog in my car.
All I stopped for and couldn't find owners. All rural.
The dog was at 11pm at 60mph. Not good.

I've had two cats killed by cars. Both times right outside the house. Nobody knocked to my knowledge.

Don't know what I think. Risk you take on letting your cats out I suppose.

When I was a kid my mum lived right on the A5 near corwen on a 60mph stretch. Poor Dilys got flattened repeatedly until she was a black fur blob on the road. We walked past her every day for weeks. Fun times.

Not sure what your point is mind.

Me neither, there must have been one somewhere along the line. Maybe to do with the Renault 16 mentioned earlier or something.
& i'm not even pissed.

Hoping olly2097's mum isn't called Dilys.

Hoping olly2097’s mum isn’t called Dilys.

🙂

"Hoping olly2097’s mum isn’t called Dilys."
laptop/coffee interface!

Just to redress the balance I'll tell you about the tiny kitten I rescued from the middle of the A56 on Hambledon Hill. I thought it was a crisp packet then realised it was a kitten, cringeing on the white line. Screeched to a stop, sprinted back and scooped it up. It had a bloody nose and looked to have fallen off a vehicle emerging from a farm. I went in and nobody was at home so I took it to a neighbouring farm where the farmer said she would take care of it. I wish I had kept it now; it would have made a lovely present for my wee boy.

“Hoping olly2097’s mum isn’t called Dilys.”
laptop/coffee interface!

No laughing, this is very serious. #CatsLivesMatter

Shockingly there are out of hours services for this exact situation with vets so you don’t have an excuse I’m afraid. You’ll just have to let your morning coffee go cold while you deal with the animal you just killed. It’s the least you can do

I live in a fairly rural area, a dog I would drop off at the vet no problem, owners tend to generally to take responsibility for them.

I've had to dispatch a few animals, and in the case where a dear jumped down an embankment and broke it's neck avoiding us on our push bikes we flagged down a farmer who happened to know the ghillie who came along with a rifle to do the job properly. So I feel I have taken responsibility for any situation that an animal has been killed or needed to be killed.
I reckon a facebook post would be enough for tiddles.

We lost our pedigree 1 year old on a local road - he's wandered too far and was clipped by a car. Fortunately, the powers of the local facebook page alerted to us that a cat had been hit and the description matched ours (very distinctive).

The main issue is we found him, despite the upset. We'd have wondered if he was stolen - we only let him out when we were at home. Anyway, we've got 3 more since, and they have an enclosed cat run !

TBH not much one can do, but the number of times drivers haven't given a sh1t about running me off my bike and leaving me for dead, then it's no surprise. The driver that broke my spine had clear intentions he was going to drive off - decided he better stop in the end.

Many drivers don't give a fark about us person's on a bike, so wouldn't about a cat/dog.

Many drivers don’t give a fark about us person’s on a bike, so wouldn’t about a cat/dog.

Wise words

You're a heartless ****! You've either left an animal to die a slow, painful and possibly unnecessary death, or regardless of your own thoughts on pets you have killed a member of someone's family and they could now go through weeks/months/years of anguish not knowing what happened to their pet, or they have to scrape their beloved cat off the road after another fifty cars have tuned it into mush. Either way it makes you a really shit human being.

Just about to approach my house a couple of years back, in the dark, I heard a thud on the car. Not having a clue what I’d hit (not a nice moment), hazards on, I got out of the car to discover the black cat that I would often see hunting mice on the moor, laid intact in the road. No collar and really rough old fur.

As I looked at this scraggy moggy with its eyes looking a bit ‘not quite right’, I was hopeful that maybe it was just stunned. I felt really bad and wondered where the hell it had come from; I could only assume it had launched itself into the side of the car. At this moment a fancy Mercedes then pulled up behind me and the young driver came hopping over to see what he could do to help. He hopped to and fro to his car and eventually armed me with an old towel so I could scoop up the cat and put my passenger seat. I thanked him, wondered how my day had gone so weird so fast, and drove to the only 24h vet I knew of. The cat obviously got wind that this was in Bradford and decided pretty sharpish it would rather die.

So there I was stuck in traffic, in Bradford, with a dead cat looking directly at me and its tongue sticking out. Every time I went around a corner its head rolled over the edge of the seat, and I had to then lift it back up to prevent the whole cat slipping away into the footwell. This ritual was only broken with fleeting thoughts back to how agile that bloke was with one leg. The whole episode was like a Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror special.

Eventually got to the vets, having been guilt-tripped by a dead cat staring at me for the best part of an hour, and swapped the moggy for a thanks.

Odd evening that was.

you have killed a member of someone’s family

Really? I thought he'd squished a cat.
Maybe cat owners (of which I am one) could fit moggy with a GPS tracker in case it goes missing.

And that's why I prefer animals to people, because people are *****, and in modern society only seem to be getting worse.

Shockingly there are out of hours services for this exact situation

Last time I used an out of hours vet (for my own dog) it was £200 just to walk through the door. Sorry, but no way I'd fork out cash for someone else's dopey cat that decided to end things by jumping under my car. I'd stop and check it was dead and do what I could if it wasn't but I'm not taking responsibility for someone else's roaming semi-wild moggy.

You’re a heartless ****! You’ve either left an animal to die a slow, painful and possibly unnecessary death, or regardless of your own thoughts on pets you have killed a member of someone’s family and they could now go through weeks/months/years of anguish not knowing what happened to their pet, or they have to scrape their beloved cat off the road after another fifty cars have tuned it into mush. Either way it makes you a really shit human being.

+1 to UncleFred - if they are a "member of someone's family" then don't treat them like a wild animal and let them wander randomly around the place. You wouldn't let any other member of "your family" do that so don't expect cats to get the same treatment as kids / wives / husbands etc etc.

And don't try and pass blame for that onto someone who had the unfortunate experience of hitting and killing a cat through no fault of their own.

Chin up, there are drivers out there who hit cyclists and carry on regardless.

Children are not cats. Cats are not children.

Whilst literally true, irrespective of whether you like cats (or dogs or whatever) folk do kind of get attached to their pets.

I had a cat who lived to be 18. She was my companion from the age of about 12 until I was 30. Eighteen years. I was distraught when the time came for me to make That call to the vets, it still upsets me thinking about it today.

When my dad went doolally and spent the last four years of his life either in hospital or a care home, my mum's only company was a stray moggie she'd adopted. He disappeared one day and never came back, I say without exaggeration that she was devastated (probably more so than when my father eventually checked out). She's vowed never to have another (cat, not husband) because the pain of losing that one was so great.

Now, you can pap on about "fur babies" and "mad cat ladies" all you like, and you can consider cats to be "vermin" if you so desire. Whatevs. But if you have a shred of human decency then forget the animal, show some basic ****ing compassion for the little girl who's crying herself to sleep for the next six months or the old lady who's now alone in the world. Or, y'know, the 47-year old bloke who has to read comments from people being utter shits.

What he said. ^^ It's just a complete lack of empathy and that your opinion is fact and everyone else is wrong. You think it's fine to fatally wound an animal and leave it to die because it's owner shouldn't have let it out? That only speaks volumes about you.

Last time I used an out of hours vet (for my own dog) it was £200 just to walk through the door. Sorry, but no way I’d fork out cash for someone else’s dopey cat that decided to end things by jumping under my car. I’d stop and check it was dead and do what I could if it wasn’t but I’m not taking responsibility for someone else’s roaming semi-wild moggy.

That's not true, a vet would not charge you for bringing in an animal involved in an RTA, they would keep alive/comfortable until the owner could be contacted regarding extensive treatment or PTS if it was in it's best interests.

even if it were dead, it would have been the decent thing to do to look for a number on the tag on it's collar to tell the owners of the accident - they might worry for weeks/months/ever over the cat.

pretty shitty thing to do really.

Should have stopped and checked at least.

I know a lass who spent a couple of months in hospital after hitting a deer on a dual carriageway

She must've been a fast runner.