Two people I know have lost two outdoor cats each to road accidents. They weren't old cats either. Road safety and cats simply don't go together. Two weeks ago we were out on the roads and the car ahead only narrowly missed running over a black cat. The cat was very lucky because at the moment he escaped being run over, there was no oncoming traffic. If a car had been coming, he would have been finished. Where I live there are new dead animals on the roads almost daily. Hedgehogs, foxes, cats and badgers. There have been dead deer as well.