Bits of fur or feathers, red smudge and bones smashed into the pavement. A decapitated coyote takes the cake for most exotic kill - the body was intact, except for the neck. Sometimes, the animal looks like it got hit, struggled to make it to the other side, and got eviscerated by another rolling tire. I should know. Too bad the next car couldn't get out of the way, either.
Death is a common traveler of the highways.
Not only does it strike the creatures of the wild, but it also comes to people as well. I almost get religious when I travel. Believe me, witnessing some of the crap I've been through is scary. Winds that blow cars into other lanes, drivers paying more attention to the invisible person in their cell phone and sleeping people at the wheel, like the woman I just passed by on Interstate 5, who was appearing to use The Force to navigate her car through traffic at 75 mph. It all makes the guy jamming his SUV or compact car 5 feet behind my car's trunk seem tame.