I saw someone swerve and hit a box turtle crossing the road once. I was turning around to get it off the road and this person pulled out of thier driveway and then swerved to hit this thing. Or so it seemed to me. I was ticked. It was in the middle of the lane and the guy steered out of his lane and ran it over. I'm 90% sure it was on purpose. I'd like to think it was an accedent, but after seeing it happen I'm not sure.

Why anyone would intentionaly hurt and animal for no reason is beyond me. At least with hunting the purpose is to use the animal. I've never released an arrow or bullet without an intent of killing the animal and using it for food. I take that back...I killed a possum once when I was a kid that the dogs had cornered and that was getting into our trash. But never just because.

Maybe your person swerved to miss it thinking it would go into the road again... I hope so...hopefully it was not just to kill something...