Eyes on the road

A US driver has lodged a contender for the world's most feeble excuse for an accident following an incident near to his home in Oklahoma. The 68-year-old was on his way home from church when he drove his pick-up truck into a 2tonne elephant, and then claimed that he had not initially seen it.
February 22, 2012 Read time: 1 min
A US driver has lodged a contender for the world's most feeble excuse for an accident following an incident near to his home in Oklahoma. The 68-year-old was on his way home from church when he drove his pick-up truck into a 2tonne elephant, and then claimed that he had not initially seen it. The 2.44m high elephant had escaped from a nearby circus and suffered a broken tusk and an injured leg in the incident, although the accident could have been much worse had the driver not seen the fugitive animal at the last moment and swerved to avoid a head-on impact. The animal was attended to by a vet but was not seriously hurt. The driver's ego has been somewhat dented however.

Related Content

  • One in 20 adults involved in UK road accident in 2012, IAM claims
    August 8, 2013
    One in 20 adults was involved in a road accident in the UK in 2012, according to road safety charity, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM). Referring to information from the National Travel Survey (NTS) published by the Department for Transport (DfT), the IAM says the survey shows that 5.2% of the population admit to having been involved in an accident. The IAM says the DfT figures also reveal that men (5.6%) are more likely to be involved in an accident than women (4.8%). Overall, the IAM adds, the fi
    Read More
  • UK Government must show “much greater leadership” on road safety
    August 20, 2012
    A leading road safety campaigner has urged the UK government to show “much greater leadership” on the issue after new Department for Transport (DfT) figures revealed a rise in pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads. The number of cyclists killed or seriously injured (KSI) on UK roads between April 1 and June 30, 2012 rose 13% to 700, compared to 621 over the same three months of 2011.
    Read More
  • Beach Swamped
    November 15, 2016
    The owner of an expensive Range Rover may have reason to regret trying to help another driver in the UK recently. The Range Rover owner spotted that the driver of a van had managed to get the vehicle stuck on a beach. Keen to help, the Range Rover owner drove his 4WD onto the beach and attempted to tow the van free.
    Read More
  • Europe’s road safety picture slanted wrong way?
    May 24, 2016
    The European Commission’s latest figures for road safety reveal some cause for concern across the EU. While the EU has the world’s safest roads overall, the road fatality rate has slipped during 2015. And this is for the second consecutive year also as EU road deaths in 2014 also showed an increase over 2013. By comparison, there were decreases in the European road death rate of 8% in 2012 and 2013.
    Read More

Highlighted Content