Wily Coyote Survives Wild Ride-Animal Struck By Car, Gets Trapped Behind Grill [View All]

[The Straight Story]

Wily Coyote Survives Wild Ride
Animal Struck By Car, Gets Trapped Behind Grill


PENN VALLEY, Calif. -- A coyote struck by a fast-moving car near the Nevada-Utah border apparently got trapped by the vehicle's grill and rode for several hours all the way west to the foothills east of Sacramento.

Daniel East and his sister, Tevyn, were travelling at about 75 mph along Interstate 80 when they saw some coyotes running nearby. One of the coyotes ran in front of the car.

"Right off the bat, we knew it was bad," Daniel East told reporters with Sacramento news station KCRA.

They said they kept driving because they thought they had killed the animal, so there was no point in stopping. They were on their way to start to new chapter in their lives, to be in a community of artists and farmers in North San Juan, just outside Nevada City.

After they arrived -- eight to 10 hours later -- they found the trapped animal and called Penn Valley-based Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release.

http://www.clickorlando.com/family/21345970/detail.html