The creature collides with the car window

When you give the car, you never know what can happen to you. But what you never expect is for an animal to crash into your car window while you are driving.

Latonya Lark was out running errands with her brother Kevin Grant on May 12 in Savannah, Georgia when a turtle suddenly came through the window. The pair were traveling north on the Harry S Truman Parkway at the time.

The turtle could have caused major injuries to the driver and passenger, but thankfully it only pierced the glass and was stuck there.

“I thought it was a brick, and I told (my brother), ‘My God, there’s a brick!'” Lark told.

Grant and Lark explained that they were driving when they suddenly heard a loud boom and felt shattered glass hit them.

“When the glass broke, the first thing that came to my mind was just to shield myself,” Grant, a licensed cosmetologist, said.

There was not much else the siblings could do in the short amount of time that they had.

“So it was just like, you know, turn and cover.”

Lark assumes that the turtle must have been hit by another passing car in front of them and that the creature was thrown back to their windshield.

Lark and Grant pulled over immediately following the incident and called for help. The service vehicles had to tow the car because of how damaged it was in the accident.

“Even the police officer said if that glass wasn’t as thick as it was and I didn’t slow down the way I did when I saw the object coming, it would have been disastrous,” Lark later explained.

Officers at the scene removed the turtle from the ruined windshield. The animal was alive but lost one of its legs.

Lark called a few days later to check on the animal and sadly found out that it eventually died due to the amount of blood loss it suffered.

Lark now wants people to remember to pay attention to the road at all times while driving, especially at high speeds.

“If people are not paying attention to the road…you know, whoever hit that turtle, they had to have been flying,” she elaborated.

How would you react if something like that happened?