Life changes in an instant on the road
My first overnight stop on the Alcan was in Whitehorse, Yukon. Slept and work up at first light and started driving again about 5:30 am going through Whitehorse looking for coffee. Nothing was open yet so figured I would get some later down the road. About. Ten minutes south of Whitehorse during the start of the day's first light outside I could see a vehicle approaching me about a quarter mile away. I would guess we were both driving about 45 to 50 miles per hour as the darkness waned and the morning light creeped over the mountains to the east. All of a sudden from my left side of the road a large moose ran out of the darkness of the roads edge and into the path of the car approaching me. The vehicle's hood drove under the moose's belly causing the full body of the moose to impact the windshield crushing the front of the car, glass and top with the moose bouncing off the vehicle into my path! I was able to swerve to the right stopping just past the bloody carcass