RE: PETA?
PETA is against many things, including eating meat [animals]. I'm not sure if that extends to road kill. But I wouldn't be surpirsed if in those cases, PETA would have issues with the driver who hit the animal.
It's funny how PETA and other anti's consider animals game animals as "defenseless." Ever seen what happens when a man & deer go at it mano-a-mano? In the videos, the man usually gets whupped. After seeing a dog that messed with the wrong racoon, I kinda look at them a little differently too. And then there's hogs, and bears, and mountain lions, and....