


March 20, 2006
Moose Calls Shotgun: Animal crashes into woman’s car, winds up in front seat
By Dave Hurteau & Chad Love
If for some odd reason you’ve never seen a moose sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle, check out the pictures, and accompanying story, linked below. The photos were taken shortly after a 500-pound moose crashed through the windshield of a car driven by 30-year-old Juleigh McDowell of Leominster, Massachusetts. Remarkably, McDowell was not seriously injured.
http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_077001519.html
WOW - That lady is sure lucky she hit a very young moose. An average adult moose, depending on gender can be a 200# or more either way of 1000-1200 pounds.At the bottom of the mile hill, (there is a swamp area)(in Ontario, Canada) there are at last count, at least 6 white crosses, the results of car/moose collisions. The moose will cross the highway part way up the hill, and at night are very hard to see. (A healthy moose, can have a shiney,almost black coat of fur at times.) Usually the moose and occupants of the vehicle both suffer, whether the moose goes over, or into the vehicle.On the way back to town at dusk last fall, my son & his buddy were barely able to pull open the door to pull out a lady, who commuted the hill to work. She was very shook up, and kept repeating, "I should know better,I live near here,I should have been watching " My son said he didn't go too close to the moose, it was still alive, & he said it looked like it was half skinned. The car,(a smaller mid-size), well, there was no front grill area, the hood was crumpled, & pushed down into the engine, the front fenders were crumpled, there was no windshield, the roof & both doors were almost level with the hood, and of course there was no rear window left, and the trunk, & both fenders were crumpled. It looked like a big giant stepped on it. My son & his buddy both thought she must be a goner, and he said the doors were so badly crumpled,they were surprised that they were able (just barely) to get the door open, and pull the lady out. She was shaking a lot, but had no injuries, except for a couple of scratches. (miraculous)Along the north shore of Lake Superior, we travel cautously at night, and tell tourists,& travelers. we talk to, to do the same. Once we're out of town, we're in their "living room", and we have to watch.
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WOW - That lady is sure lucky she hit a very young moose. An average adult moose, depending on gender can be a 200# or more either way of 1000-1200 pounds.At the bottom of the mile hill, (there is a swamp area)(in Ontario, Canada) there are at last count, at least 6 white crosses, the results of car/moose collisions. The moose will cross the highway part way up the hill, and at night are very hard to see. (A healthy moose, can have a shiney,almost black coat of fur at times.) Usually the moose and occupants of the vehicle both suffer, whether the moose goes over, or into the vehicle.On the way back to town at dusk last fall, my son & his buddy were barely able to pull open the door to pull out a lady, who commuted the hill to work. She was very shook up, and kept repeating, "I should know better,I live near here,I should have been watching " My son said he didn't go too close to the moose, it was still alive, & he said it looked like it was half skinned. The car,(a smaller mid-size), well, there was no front grill area, the hood was crumpled, & pushed down into the engine, the front fenders were crumpled, there was no windshield, the roof & both doors were almost level with the hood, and of course there was no rear window left, and the trunk, & both fenders were crumpled. It looked like a big giant stepped on it. My son & his buddy both thought she must be a goner, and he said the doors were so badly crumpled,they were surprised that they were able (just barely) to get the door open, and pull the lady out. She was shaking a lot, but had no injuries, except for a couple of scratches. (miraculous)Along the north shore of Lake Superior, we travel cautously at night, and tell tourists,& travelers. we talk to, to do the same. Once we're out of town, we're in their "living room", and we have to watch.
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