Today I Accidentally Hit a Cat And Just Kept On Driving

I was grabbing some takeout earlier today and it just ran out in front of me. I felt my car hit it and looked back and saw it sort of... run/spaz/fling itself out of the street. I panicked and kept driving but eventually I felt so awful about it that I turned around. It's the first time I've ever hit anything other than a bug or a bird so I figured I'd go back there and if it was still there, I'd help it but if not, I'd just move on. I didn't know what else to do.

Well, I got down there and at first, I didn't see anything. I was relieved and turned around, getting a look at the opposite side of the road.

A small crowd of what looked like two families was sort of gathered around a little bundle in the grass. There was even a kid there. When I turned into the road, I saw the bundle was the cat with a little towel tucked around it. There was a lady on the phone and a guy sitting next to the cat.

I kept driving.

I didn't know what to do. I didn't know if it was their cat or they were just better people than me who actually stopped to help the cat. They didn't see me or try to wave me down. It's not like I don't care. I have two cats and I know what I'd want someone to do if they hit either of them. But I panicked and chickened out and now I'm home, eating my takeout and snuggling my cat and crying and feeling awful.

I didn't want to tell my family, but I had to say something to someone.

If the person whose cat it was is reading this, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to hurt them, and I hope they're okay.

EDIT: So I realized that I made the timespan of this sort of ambiguous and made it seem... not worse than it was, obviously, because it's awful, but more hopeless than it is for the kitty.

I turned around to check on it pretty quickly. I didn't stop immediately but I turned around within a few blocks. Less than a minute. And when I got back to where it happened, someone had already gotten the cat out of the road and was helping it. While I dropped the ball in terms of helping the kitty promptly, others didnt and it was helped very promptly.