An Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer’s vehicle escaped with more than just a scratch after a vulture “smashed” into the front windshield on Friday, authorities said.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Department of Public Safety tweeted a photo on Monday showing a busted windshield and an interior shot of the police vehicle with feathers scattered across the passenger seat and floor.
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The vehicle belonged to OHP Trooper Tony Harper, according to the department.
“[Harper] said it sounded like a gunshot going off inside his unit as glass and feathers went everywhere,” the department tweeted.
Yikes! This cracked windshield on Trooper Tony Harper #239’s vehicle happened last Friday on SH 33 west of Cushing when a VULTURE smashed into his vehicle.
He said it sounded like a gunshot going off inside his unit as glass and feathers went everywhere. pic.twitter.com/429f5X9OX4— OK Highway Patrol/DPS (@OHPDPS) September 27, 2021
Harper focused on getting “his unit shut down and safely to the shoulder,” OHP added. “He was responding to a crash and he says the tow truck driver came back to check on him as well as other passing motorists.”
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According to a local journalist, the incident happened near Cushing, a town nearly 50 miles southwest of Tulsa.
