The RSPCA says a driver has deliberately run down and killed 17 kangaroos on the outskirts of Brisbane. 
 
 
 
 The animal welfare group said it was appalled by the incident that left a 100-metre stretch of road at Wacol littered with kangaroo carcasses. 
 
 The animals were discovered on Monday morning, between a women’s prison and a nearby men’s one on Grindle Road. 
 
 RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty said many of the kangaroos were young. 
 
 “One of them we had to euthanase, 16 of them were dead,” he said on Monday. “They’ve definitely been deliberately run over. You can quite clearly see the tyre tracks where they’ve gone off the road to hit them.” 
 
 Beatty appealed for any witnesses to come forward. ||||| Story highlights Tire marks indicate the driver swerved to hit animals on either side of the road 
 
 The kangaroos come out of the bush to eat at dusk to feed on fresh shoots 
 
 (CNN) The search is on in Australia for a motorist who is believed to have deliberately run over 17 kangaroos. 
 
 Black tire marks along a road in Wacol, Brisbane, suggest the car swerved to hit the animals as they fed by the side of the road, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). 
 
 "You can see the person's deliberately gone right across the road to the other side and hit several, and then come back on the road and hit another four or five," said Michael Beatty, spokesman for RSPCA Queensland. 
 
 The animals come out of the bush to feed in the evening to escape the hottest parts of the day, Beatty said. Locals know to slow down to avoid them. But not this time. 
 
 Tire marks show the driver swerved to hit kangaroos on both sides of the road. 
 
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– A strip of Australian highway was left strewn with injured and dead kangaroos Monday morning, and animal welfare officials are trying to find out who they say ran them down intentionally, the Guardian reports. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says a driver outside Brisbane purposely mowed down the marsupials, killing 16 of them (a 17th had to be euthanized), per CNN. The officials note that other injured animals may have taken off into the bush. Tire marks helped officials determine the vehicle swerved toward the grazing animals, who reportedly don't usually fear passing cars. "You can see the person's deliberately gone right across the road to the other side and hit several, and then come back on the road and hit another four or five," an RSPCA spokesman tells CNN. Officers are looking for a suspect who would've likely been driving a large car or truck, possibly with a grille guard. (Poor kangaroos—one almost became an ISIS-themed bomb to attack the police.)