this happened last year but I just found out about it now and i found it kinda funny so I thought i'd share it.
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It was around 5 a.m. Monday and Tom Canning was driving to his salmon fishing spot in northern Newfoundland. A car passed him, going in the opposite direction on the highway. Its windshield was smashed and the roof was almost completely ripped off, but somehow, it was still cruising along at 100 km/h. He got a glimpse of the driver and swore the man had no head.
Canning looked in his rearview mirror and saw the car swerving in and out of the oncoming lane.
“I had to stop him, one way or another,” he said in an interview Thursday.
So the fisherman turned his car around and started to chase the tattered blue Toyota. He followed it for two kilometres, going as fast as 110 km/h, until he saw a tractor-trailer coming toward them. Canning watched, helpless, as the car skipped over the yellow line and into the truck’s path.
“I don’t know how he stayed on the road,” he said.
The car dipped back into the right lane and stopped, waiting for the truck to pass so it could make a left turn onto a gravel road.
“I blowed me horn and I jumped out and I ran towards him,” Canning said.
When he got to the car, he saw the driver did, in fact, have a head — but it was so covered with blood and moose manure it was barely visible. There were moose organs in the car and a moose hide big enough to cover a table.
“I said, ‘Hey buddy! Hey buddy! You got no roof on your car.’ That’s the words I said. And he stopped. … He was buried in blood. He was horrible to look at. Terrible mess,” Canning said.
“Then I realized, it’s Steve Bromley from Conche … I used to buy my codfish from him.”
Stephen Bromley, 49, was on his way home to Conche when he hit the moose Monday. After the crash, he drove another 18 kilometres. When Canning helped him out of the car, he had no memory of the collision.
“He was saying things that didn’t really make sense,” Canning said. “I said, ‘What happened?’ and he said, ‘I can’t remember a thing. I must have felled asleep.”
At the hospital, Bromley was treated for cuts on his head and a concussion. He remembers Canning pulling him out of the car, but little to nothing of the drive.
“To tell you the truth, I didn’t even know I hit (the moose),” Bromley said. “I drove 18 kilometres with the window bit out of her. I thought the air conditioning was left on with the cold air. It’s strange.”
man drives 18KM in wrecked car with no, recollection of hitting a MOOSE
