You potentially allowed someone’s pet to die slowly and in pain…so yes, you should feel bad.
There’s a very small chance it died slowly in pain. I felt a pretty solid at the back wheel. The fact that the car behind swerved leads me to believe it was still where my tyre would have been.
Busy main road, no hard shoulder, my lane adjacent to a climbing lane so cars coming off that at probably 70 or 80 realistically, peak time, heavy traffic, it was dark and it was raining. Any over reaction or even realistic attempt to stop could have had serious consequences, including but not limited to the death of other people’s brothers, sisters, mothers fathers, wives and husbands.
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Having lost one of the beloved family moggies recently, owing to someone driving too fast through the village and unable to respond appropriately to unanticipated hazards, I have to say I find this thread very distasteful.
Ah well. At least it wasn’t a child, eh?
Good thing I was doing 5 mph UNDER the speed limit isn’t it. And yes, really good thing there wasn’t a child running across three lanes of traffic in the dark during rush hour.