Making it a legal requirement for motorists to report cat strikes won’t change anything
IT SEEMS the number of cat kills on our roads reported by the motorists involved is disproportionately low compared to other animals.
Why is this? Are we to believe that motorists have a vendetta against cats? More likely surely that when motorists hit dogs, cows, goats, sheep or horses they know what’s happened and report accordingly.
But cats have zero road sense, are quicker and are far more likely to be struck by the back wheels of a vehicle than, say a dog is.
If a motorist hits an animal with his back wheels, how is he or she to know what’s happened?
Also our local cats operate in the dark on an island whose roads are so poorly lit (in terms of quantity and quality) that they would disgrace most so-called third-world jurisdictions.
Making it a legal requirement for motorists to report cat strikes won’t change anything.
I won’t be reporting myself to cat owners, the police or anyone else for something I don’t know I’ve done.
Matt Waterman
Flat 2
3 Burnt Lane
St Peter Port
GY1 1HL
