I doubt whether the driver knew about it, it apparently was struck in the head by the car, lucky someone picked him up and took him to a vet, it was late at night, being a cat so famous you would think that James Bowen would have been a tad more careful. It's rather tragic and sad. I believe he had a large cat enclosure, the money he made from the books, movie etc he was able to buy a house worth about 1 million AU dollars which is in London, so he has done very well out of Bob the cat.