I only once deliberately ran over an animal - a rabbit - and I wasn't the first person to hit it. Its back end was flattened and stuck to the road, and it was desperately trying to run. So I ran over its head. I had 3 children in the car, one quite young, but they accepted why I had done it.

Last year I was with my (then) learner driver daughter, and she hit a pheasant as it took off in front of her car. She was mortified, as she had been determined never, ever to hit an animal.

Andrea