Slow down at dusk, where the road meets the fields
Most animals are hit in the half hour either side of dark, on roads people know well enough to stop concentrating on.
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Dawn and dusk are when most mammals move and when human eyes are at their worst, and familiarity makes it worse again — the stretch of road somebody drives every day is the one they drive fastest and least attentively. Ten miles an hour slower on a known lane at dusk costs a couple of minutes. Nobody will ever know you did it, which is true of most of the genuinely useful things on this list.
How
Identify the stretch where the hedges close in or the fields start, and take it slower between sunset and full dark. Dip your lights for oncoming traffic but use full beam otherwise on an empty lane — you see eyes long before you see an animal. If something is already hit and alive, call a local wildlife rescue rather than handling it.
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