If you hit an animal with your vehicle while driving on a California highway, you should:
- Move the injured animal off the road.
- Call the humane society. ✓
- Continue driving.
Answer: B. Call the humane society.
Call the humane society, or law enforcement, and leave the injured animal where it is.
Why this is the answer
The handbook covers this under what to do in a collision: if you kill or injure an animal, you should call the nearest humane society or law enforcement. It also says plainly that you should not try to move an injured animal. So picking the animal up and dragging it off the roadway is the one thing the handbook tells you not to do. Reporting it gets the animal proper help and lets someone with the right training handle it safely.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Move the injured animal off the road. — The handbook specifically says not to try to move an injured animal, so hauling it off the road goes against that instruction.
- C. Continue driving. — Driving on without doing anything skips the handbook's instruction to call the humane society or law enforcement after you kill or injure an animal.
Remember it
Hurt an animal? Report it, don't move it.