LRME -- Blogmeister

When is there more road kill rain or shine? This is the question that I have been studying to find the answer to. When it is raining out and you are driving it can be hard to see at times so if you are going at a fast rate and an animal is in the road or crossing the road you might not stop in time or you just don’t see it. When it is sunny out and a good day lots of people go fast in a hurry so if an animal is crossing or in the road you might not stop in time.So I studied the days that it has rained over the months of March, April, May for Rye New Hampshire the years of 2008 and 2009. The amount of animals that died from March to May in 2008 was 25. 19 animals died on sunny days and 6 on Rainey. In 2009 there were also 25 animals that died in the months of March to May. It seems like there would be more road kill on rainy days and not the sunny ones. People are not following the speed limits and carelessly drive and that is affecting our animal’s population if people start to do the right thing then we could decrease the number of road kill.

I thought that there would be more road kill on a rainy day because it is hard to see and animals sometimes run across the roads to look for shelter. My thought for next year’s amount of road kill would be that the number might increase because people don’t think about the animals as much as themselves if everyone starts to do the speed limit and follow the rules of the road the number should decrease. Some road kill is not controllable but a lot of it is so be safe and slow down.