Turtles are slow but they're also smart to stay out of the street! What animal gets hit the most annually?

I'm guessing SQUIRRELS! I don't really know but I'm going mad with Boredom so SQUIRRELS!!

Depends on the area you are talking about. In rural areas I would say raccoon or possums but in city I would guess squirrels or dogs/cats

Rabbits on the Colorado Prairie

Could depend on your area. I would think deer are the easiest to hit, as when they perceive a threat, they tend to freeze. "The deer in the headlights" look. You don't necessarily need to be driving at night. If they see you coming, even people, they tend to freeze first. And you have a missal driving at them at 35mph, they don't have time to think to run. Deer, when they see a person, freeze first, then react. So, that freeze is bad timing. I would imagine the hardest thing to hit may be a cat. They tend to be quick reactors. That's not to say they don't get run over, but cat's are watchers and analyzers. While a domestic house cat that happens to get out might be killed for running into traffic, it's because they don't know any better. A feral cat, or cat that is both indoors and out, would know to avoid cars.

Where I live in the springtime it has to be squirrels, I've seen very few deers, raccoons and possums dead on the side of the road but the number of dead squirrels are phenomenal.

Around here, it's mainly deer and raccoons

Every summer when turtles leave their watery homes in my area to lay their eggs somewhere sandy I see squashed ones that didn't make it across the road in time. I don't think turtles are unintelligent as their kind goes but they don't seem to have any sense of traffic danger when it comes to crossing whereever they feel they have to go. I think you're mistaking in your notion about them. In my area most pavement pattied critters are deer, squirrels, skunks, coons, and porcupines, when I went thru Missouri on a road trip it was armadillos everywhere squashed a few years ago. I think what you notice the most really depends on where you live and how much wildlife you have in that area as well as human traffic and roadway set ups.

I see tutrtles crossing the road all the time. However, opossums, raccoons, and skunks are probably most hit in the area where I live in.

chicken or deer I'd presume