Cats shouldn't be outside. A human driver probably would have hit the cat, too. Heck, my neighbor in his F250 purposefully hits cats and brags about it.
Today I learned that part of "America" is in the southern hemisphere.
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2024/05/roaming...
Assuming the pet cat in Australia is the same pet cat in Europe.
Not sure how to classify the ones in Istanbul, but the point stands that the amount of harm claimed in the article is overblown.