There are also a lot of people out there that will intentionally swerve to hit an animal. Mark Rober made a video a long time ago where 6% of drivers went out of their way to hit animals that were just chilling on the shoulder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA

They are referring to when New Jersey had a huge problem with needles washing up on the beaches back in the 90s.

Hell yeah! Where all my New Jerseyans at?