Did Google Street View kill a dog?

Do these images from Google Street View show a canine copping it from one of the search giant's mapping cars? Source: Supplied

GOOGLE doesn't let mountains or oceans get in the way of mapping the world and it seems it won't stop at animals either.

Images from a street view car in Chile show what appears to be one of its camera-bearing cars running over a dog and leaving it for dead.

If you take a trip down Meza Bell 2815, Chile on Google Maps you can re-live the moment, shot-by-shot, when a little canine trots in front of the path of the oncoming car — the next images seen from the car's rear-facing camera show it lying on the road not moving.

Watch out! The little fella totally forgets his crossing code. Source: Supplied

News.com.au followed the Google car's path as it kept on driving and looking back as far as the zoom could stretch and did not see the pooch hop to its feet. Closer inspection of the more immediate images do show the dog moving in one image but it's hard to tell whether this is a last struggle of life or whether he is just laying in the sun and having a stretch.

One of the images of the dog. Source: Supplied

A closer look and it's still hard to tell whether the dog is dead or laying in the sun. Source: Supplied

A person can be seen at the side of the road where the 'accident' occurred but they didn't rush to the rescue — perhaps a sign that the dog was in no danger? Or perhaps it's another local who is used to the many stray street dogs in the area and this is not an unusual occurrence.

This image shows the dog rolled over. A sign of hope, perhaps? Source: Supplied

Way down the road, this zoomed in shot shows it still in the same position. Source: Supplied

This sort of thing also isn't unusual for Google. In January last year it was accused of running over a donkey in Botswana after images on street view walking alongside the vehicle one moment then lying still on the ground the next. It was swiftly proven by Google that this wasn't a hit-and-run and that the images were not as they appear.

The Botswana donkey. Source: Supplied

Google has said it is investigating the images regarding the dog to "understand and inform what happened" and reassure they "have guidelines in place to protect people and animals" as they map places around the world.

To us, it looks like the dog has simply chosen a paw place to take a lie down.

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