I've got a similar story. A fellow S2ker and I were doing some "spirited" driving through a desert canyon late at night. There were alot of mice and rabbits shooting across the road, but nothing close enough for me to worry. Atleast that's what I thought. I got home and decided to check the oil and found a little field mouse crushed and bloody on the frame where the airbox used to be.

 

Only ever hit one living thing, a pidgeon....

Going to work on a two lane road at about 6:50am I was in the overtaking lane behind a car with two senior citizens in waiting patiently for them to reach their 25mph top speed. The inside lane was also blocked by another car slowly accelerating.

The car in front of me finally pulled over, clearing the overtaking lane, so I thought I would just nip past. As I hit VTEC in 2nd gear though a couple of pidgeons that saw the approaching senior citizens car fluttered out of the way and landed right in front of my front wheel One managed to take off again, the other didn't I hit it full on with the tire and upon looking out of the rear window saw a vortex of feathers behind my S.

I was a bit shocked as it all happened so fast and with another car alongside me there was nowhere to swerve. The senior citizens were shaking their fists and flashing their car headlights. I was still thinking yuk! and didn't lift off the gas as soon as I'd planned, so I managed to reach 55mph in a 30mph, although it was really early and there were no pedestrians around.

I drove the final mile to the car park in a cold sweat thinking that may car was damaged, but luckily it was ok. To this day I don't know if it was the sickening vortex of feathers, my unintentional speed, or the fact that all this happened right next to where there was loads of bouquets of flowers by the roadside where someone had bought the farm recently, that made the senior citizens so angry

What is certain though, is that if they drove at a reasonable speed the pidgeons would have flown away rather than fluttering into the adjacent lane, or if they left it until after 9:00am to visit their grandchildren, then that rat with wings would probably be alive today

As an aside, I work in Nottingham, England and the council hire a guy to cull pidgeons in the city square. He uses a male sparrow hawk to kill them from 6:00am until about 7:00am, and from 7:00am until 8:00am he switches to his female sparrow hawk that just scares them away. This stops people complaining about cruelty etc., so maybe my roadkill was lucky compared to others

 

I've actually hit three birds in my driving career...and I'm only 27! Two of them were while travelling on the highway...those were pretty scary actually b/c they happened so fast. The worst one was actually a hawk! I was cruising down the interstate at about 80 I think (not in the S), and I saw the hawk flying along about 6' above the ground over the median parallel with me. He must have been going pretty fast, b/c I wasn't overtaking him that quickly. I remember thinking, "I sure hope he doesn't veer right." No sooner said than done...he makes an abrupt right turn to go over the road and BAM, right into my windshield. Frankly I'm amazed he didn't shatter it...was a big bird. He left a big ole bloody smear directly in front of my eyes. I actually had to lean over to the side to see out the front of the car. Poor bugger .

 

The irony is that it was playing chicken.