prius versus coyote

This is my first thread- I thought that I would relate my first experience with hitting an animal. My wife and I live in the east bay and my family lives in los angeles. Over the labor day weekend we decided to visit my family, we leave our house always around 1 in the morning (to avoid the traffic). We were driving on the 5 frwy going about 75 miles an hour when a coyote ran in front of the car. Before we had a chance to react we hit the coyote (of course with my great luck the coyote struck