Animals that have died due to vehicular incursions
The battered remains of a roadkilled deer on Route 170/Okatie Highway by the Chechessee River in South Carolina, USWide-ranging large carnivores like this bear are particularly vulnerable to becoming roadkill.
Roadkill is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how they can be mitigated.[1][2][3]
^Kušta, Tomáš; Keken, Zdeněk; Ježek, Miloš; Holá, Michaela; Šmíd, Petr (2017). "The effect of traffic intensity and animal activity on probability of ungulate-vehicle collisions in the Czech Republic". Safety Science. 91: 105–113. doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2016.08.002.
^Sáenz-de-Santa-María, Antonio; Tellería, José L. (8 March 2015). "Wildlife-vehicle collisions in Spain". European Journal of Wildlife Research. 61 (3): 399–406. doi:10.1007/s10344-015-0907-7. S2CID6511474.