Hugs,
Erin

you have to watch for anything running out into the street, so speed equals danger.
we used to have some morons in the area who liked to use the snakelike turns on our dead end street to race, until the morons hit a deer that weighed over 80 lbs. their cars did not come out well, one fool flipped end over end. the drivers survived with no long term injuries, and then they decided to find somewhere else to race their cars.

the people who live out here drive slow, animals and people are always watched for. I was coming home 10 years ago on a moonless night and almost hit a black steer standing in the middle of the road, because I was doing the speed for an un speed posted road of 35mph I was able to stop and not hit it.. I let it move and went home and called the sherif.

We have lost cats to coyotes, and as such stopped keeping them. The dogs always stay in a group for safety. I live less than an hour outside of a major city and I have to always be on the look out for animals on the road. Opossums, coyotes, rabbits, foxes, Deer, wild bore, not counting the domestic variety of dogs and cats.

The fact that someone did not have the curtesy to slow down with a pedestrian on the road concerns me, plus they nicked you with their mirror, if they did not stop that counts as a hit and run. I question at times now wanting to move to a more densely populated area.