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A woman in Kenya was stopped by police who spotted a tree embedded in the front of her car. It was unclear just how she had managed to crash into the tree and snap it off above the roots, with the front valance then crushing and folding around the trunk.
June 27, 2016 Read time: 1 min
A woman in Kenya was stopped by police who spotted a tree embedded in the front of her car. It was unclear just how she had managed to crash into the tree and snap it off above the roots, with the front valance then crushing and folding around the trunk.

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