Claim: Photographs show the results of a car vs. moose accident in Ontario.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2004]
Origins: These photographs correspond to an accident which took place during late-evening darkness on
through the car's roof and partway out the back window.
Although the moose was killed by collision, the driver escaped relatively unscathed, a broken hand her most serious injury.
The Toronto Sun reported on the accident as follows:
"I am extremely lucky and very glad to be here," said Bernice Clayton-Seca hit the moose near South River, 50 km south of North Bay, "I knew moose were in the area, so I had my high beams on, and was "But at the last minute I saw his legs." The collision sent the moose ripping through the windshield of the "My husband was driving behind me so he stopped immediately, and lots Clayton-Seca was taken by ambulance to North Bay General hospital for The moose was not so lucky. It died from its injuries.
A North Bay-area woman suffered only minor injuries after a bull moose
shot through her windshield and out the rear window over the weekend.
Clayton-Seca, a 53 year-old educational assistant from Sundridge.
while driving home late Friday night on Hwy. 11 from North Bay.
looking out for them," she said.
1999 Chevy Lumina, tearing off the roof of the car, and exiting head
and shoulders through the back window.
of people stopped to help," Clayton-Seca said. "It was wonderful to
have all that help."
minor injuries, a broken hand, and a few cuts and bruises.
Last updated: 30 January 2005
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