Raccoons are smart, have distinct personalities and can be real characters. One night just at the first bend in the road to our house as i was bringing daughter home at 10pm or so, 3 young, not babies but clearly not full adults were crossing the dark (no street lights) road. I stopped th car. 1 scampered the rest of the way across, but the other 2 just froze, standing upright staring at car, one grasping the other's shoulders in a panic. Luckily little traffic on that road (we see wildlife on it at night almost as often as cars), so i could just sit there, in a few seconds the smarter one came back and ushered his companions (siblings?) Across. One of the joys of country life.