This is in fact a major reason for ban on night driving. Most of the herpetofauna and smaller animals cross the roads in the night and no way can they avoid speeding vehicles. Running over one such mass movement of frogs or any species may significantly reduce their population. Earlier it was important to create roads that can reduce the distance as the speed of vehicles was low. Today one can make a smooth and wide road which can skirt the forest areas and still reduce the overall time of travel. Unfortunately, our planners are not considering such alternate alignments of roads which don't pass through forest areas.

Sometimes back a black panther was killed in a road accident. There are many cases of leopards being hit and killed by speeding vehicles. One of those may be the last remaining of their population in that area.

My prescription is: 1) don't maintain the roads passing through the forests 2) create alternate alignments to skirt the forest areas