If you were driving home at night and saw a small animal in the road, half dead but moving (as if recently struck by a car) would you run it over to put it out of it's misery?

If you were driving home at night and saw a small animal in the road, half dead but moving (as if recently struck by a car) would you run it over to put it out of it's misery?
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Perhaps if I didn’t think it could be saved.
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