See What a Moose can Do
On October 8th my boyfriend came up to Park City,Utah where I had been working all day to meet me for 
dinner. We drove separate cars home and only minutes after leaving My boyfriend hit a Moose on the freeway in His Mercedes Sports Car.
Parleys Summit is one of the steepest freeways in the US, better know as I 80. We were heading west on I 80 just past Kimball Junction, I was about 100 yards ahead of him. He was traveling at about 65 miles an hour in the middle lane and out appears a Moose. All my boyfriend saw was dark gray suddenly in his windshield and the air bag going off.
Needless to say his car was totaled, fortunately minus glass embedded in his right hand he is fine thanks to air bags and God. It was a miracle, Moose guts, hair and glass every where. The Moose flew over his car and caused another 5 cars to hit it.
We have a lot of wild life here in Utah but I didn't expect to see Moose on the freeway, deer and elk yes but Moose not so much. It was also miraculous that I wasn't in the passengers seat, that is the side that had the most damage. Another miracle is that no one else was hurt seriously except the poor Moose.
The I 80 stretch of Parleys Summit also gets heavy truck traffic, not well lit and could have been fatal and ugly according to the Highway Patrol. We are very blessed.
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