I live far out in the country(not in Louisville) and we get a lot of injured turtles on the road. We don't get a whole lot of traffic, so the only time we don't stop to get turtles off the road is if it's a blind curve. Recently we found a very young box turtle that was on the edge of the road. His/her shell was cracked about 1/2 an inch in the front. It wasn't long but it was deep.
If a car ran over him it would have caused much more damage, so I think that maybe an animal tried to eat him. We took him back to our house and he seemed to be in shock. You could touch his leg and he would barely move it. I went to our pond and got some water and got a clean spray bottle and gave him a little bit of water. Each time he would spit it out.
He started to open only one eye, but we had to leave for vacation so I decided to let him go in the woods and hope for the best.
If anyone has helped injured box turtles and knows what to do, that would greatly help me for the next time.Thanks!