Lots do get run over, I've hit a couple. Even at speed they've enough life left in them to crawl to the side of the road. After hitting them I've gone back and had a look for them. Not a long look but enough to know they weren't in the middle of the road.
When I lived in Lincolnshire they were a regular sight dead at the side of the road.
I think the farmer idea is unlikely, they wouldn't go to all that effort no reason to. Who's going to go wondering around fields in the off chance a farmer has killed one and then start proving it was them that killed the badger?
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