If possible driving a car, I usually try not to have many people behind me. In this case it saved a life of a hedgehog. He came up just in front of my car! What to do? Theoretically you are not obliged to brake for the small animals, BUT I can not drive over a hedgehog. I stopped. He stopped also, just in front of my lightsr. There were no cars coming on the opposite field, what allowed him to pass safely the road. This time anyway. Other cars behind me (it was a long queue) had to stop as well, drivers became a bit nervous what is going on, later on I realised that:

• I should have turn emergency lights on
  
  
• I could be hurt by someone driving into me from behind
  
  

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