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Article: Alive: Koala run over at 60mph then carried 7 miles stuck in car grille
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 16, 2008
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IT WAS a remarkable escape from almost certain death which has
earned "Lucky" the right to brag from the treetops of Queensland.
The eight-year-old koala was struck by a car travelling at high
speed and then dragged along for a further seven miles before the
unsuspecting driver was made aware of her unlikely hitch-hiker.
Rescuers, who noticed the marsupial clinging to the front of the
vehicle, his body dangling loosely, initially thought he had been
decapitated.
However, the koala was found to be alive and well, if a little
rattled, after it emerged his head and left arm had been forced
through the car's grille, such was the force of the 60mph impact.
Rescuers have said it is a miracle ...
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