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| Still alive and relatively unharmed, but perhaps a bit freaked out |
So, we were out for dinner the other night with a friend and heard this story of one of her co-workers who had a little incident in her car while commuting to work. She was quite distraught after hitting a coyote who ran across the road in front of her but carried on, thinking he had died and there was nothing she could have done. While stopped for road construction, one of the site workers flagged her down while pointing at the front of her car. Lo and behold, the coyote had survived the accident but was literally embedded in her car when he hit the bottom portion of her grille and broke through the plastic. He was stuck fast and couldn't escape but the fact he didn't bounce off pretty well saved his life, as he would have been run over by the car had he fallen to the road.
Needless to say, getting him out was a bit tricky. He was sedated, cut out, then checked over by a vet. A few scrapes and probably some bruises but no broken bones or anything serious. He was placed in a crate and taken out and released back into the wild.
Apparently, this isn't the only time this type of thing has occurred and there are many stories of critters of all kinds being hit by cars but surviving in much the same manner as this fella. Watch for my next post, a photo series on the various animals who have defied the odds and survived car strikes but ended up going for rides against their will.
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