Roadkill

For other uses, see Roadkill (disambiguation).
"Traffic victims" redirects here. For human casualties, see Epidemiology of motor vehicle collisions.
The battered remains of a roadkilled deer on South Carolina Highway 170 by the Chechessee River in South Carolina, US
Wide-ranging large carnivores like this bear are particularly vulnerable to becoming roadkill.

Roadkill is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how they can be mitigated.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Bartonička, Tomáš; Andrášik, Richard; Duľa, Martin; Sedoník, Jiří; Bíl, Michal (July 2018). "Identification of local factors causing clustering of animal-vehicle collisions". The Journal of Wildlife Management. 82 (5): 940–947. Bibcode:2018JWMan..82..940B. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21467.
  2. ^ Kušta, Tomáš; Keken, Zdeněk; Ježek, Miloš; Holá, Michaela; Šmíd, Petr (2017). "The effect of traffic intensity and animal activity on probability of ungulate-vehicle collisions in the Czech Republic". Safety Science. 91: 105–113. doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2016.08.002.
  3. ^ Sáenz-de-Santa-María, Antonio; Tellería, José L. (8 March 2015). "Wildlife-vehicle collisions in Spain". European Journal of Wildlife Research. 61 (3): 399–406. doi:10.1007/s10344-015-0907-7. S2CID 6511474.