It's so easy to get a little cut/wound infection

[CharlesHarris]

Not far from here an urban visitor driving one of those little "Smart Cars" about the size of a top-loading washing machine hit a bear at night. The car was totaled and she was killed. The bear wandered off and was never found, so it was presumed it wasn't severely injured.

Bears here are more dangerous than deer, because bears don't look at headlights. They have no predators which are a danger to them and they believe they have the right of way. At night when they step across the roadway, they are simply "a hole in the dark" and most car-bear collisions result in fatalities.