@ToolGuy

This happened when Claire, 19, was driving home from work in Ellensburg, WA at 10 p.m.

Waiting at a red light, Claire, 29, got rear ended by a distracted driver yesterday. More neck injury.

@ToolGuy

Thank you.

They seek out the fresh growth along the edge of the roads between where the tarmac and the ground meet. That area gets a bit of run-off from showers, dew, etc, and the feed comes up soon after.

@Triphid That makes sense. In New Jersey, USA, roadkill mostly consists of deer rushing across the highways during mating season.

@UUNJ

In Washington State, deer, elk, moose and other animals cross highways to get down to rivers to drink. That's how they get killed by cars.

@LiterateHiker NJ tries to help with these highway overpasses [m.huffpost.com]

@UUNJ IF you are ever traveling out this way try to remember that the Big Red Buck 'roo can regularly grow to over 6' in height, weigh in at anywhere up to and including 130 pounds, is built like a living brick toilet, has a hide twice (skin) the thickness of most other warm blooded animals and extremely dense thick bones.
I have personally shot many of them with a .243 high velocity rifle at ranges under 150 yards and seen the bullets merely bounce off their hides, especially around the chest and abdomen region where the skin is even thicker.
They ARE big, tough and don't won't get out of the way of cars or trucks at night, they just stand there and look at them or turn and head straight at them.

@Triphid How many fingers/toes? Cuz I’m imagining a roo giving the F* You finger to a truck...

@UUNJ 'Roos have 3 toes, with 3 very hard and sharp claws/toe-nails as well, on each hind foot and 4 on each front 'hand' but no thumbs/big toes as we do. You know when a 'roo is pissed off at you because it rises to full height, rests back on its big thick muscular tail, puffs out its chest, shrugs up its shoulder and arms then starts a puffing grunting sound just before comes at you like runaway train.
It's no good trying to run away because they can travel along hopping at up to 30mph and cover 6 - 8 feet in a single hop.

Only IF the carcasses are really fresh. Otherwise they begin to decay very quickly out here in the heat. Mostly, the ones we dragged off the road today are pretty well mangled and spread across the road IF hit by anything bigger than car, usually it's the Interstate Semi-Trailers, etc, that hit them at speeds of up to 110 kph with steel 'roo bars fitted there's quite mess.
We saw one Kenworth Semi-trailer stopped about 100 yards from a splattered big red 'roo, the 'roo bar had taken the full impact and had been stove in right up to and against the radiator housing of the truck. The driver was okay and waiting for a Tow-truck to come out and help him prise the bar and the head of the 'roo away from the radiator housing.

It's even sadder to see the hundreds of bare skeletons of 'roos and emus killed previously also laying almost everywhere beside the roads.
I lost count of the skeletons after reaching 250 and that's simply because I couldn't keep up with counting them as we drove along.

Not to mention the damage a moose would do.

@Haemish1 Hit a big red buck 'roo at 50+kph and you know you've been hit. I've seen cars with their whole front ends stove in right back to the windscreen and engines jammed into the cabin area.
'Roos are tough buggers at the best of times, the worst people can do is to, a) drive at the speed limits on highways/ bush roads at night, and, b) swerve to avoid them.
I was once traveling back home from a place called Ivanhoe by train, sitting in the drivers cabin, when we hit a big red, the body went straight up and in through the windscreen of the Loco., the 'roo was still kicking and scratching as we tried to end its suffering and get out of the cab.

@ToolGuy
I hit a deer in a Honda Civic.
I was driving to work at 40 mph early one morning. Suddenly there was a deer head in my windshield. The impact cracked the windshield, spun the deer against the drivers door (broke the glass there), and then smashed the back door.
Although still driveable, the insurance company totaled the ‘94 Civic with 200,000 miles on it