770-pound moose lands on car in Norway

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Feb 24, 2003 | OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Driving through southern Norway, Leo and Esle Henriksen admired the scenery, but not the 770-pound moose that landed on their car.

Collisions between cars and moose are fairly common in Norway, a Nordic country of 4.5 million, but the large animals don't typically fly out of the air.

The moose struck the Henriksen's red Mazda 232 Sunday after it apparently slid down a mountain and landed on the car's wind shield.

"The hood was practically undamaged, but after destroying my windshield, it rolled onto the roof and swept away the ski box," he told The Associated Press.

The moose didn't fare too well, either, coming to a stop on the two-lane road a few miles south of Vatnestrom, 237 miles south of the capital, Oslo.

The animal was struck and killed by another car.

"Something must have scared it," said Henriksen, a sailor on a Norway-Denmark ferry. "The moose came down a hill behind a mountain, and it came flying through the air."

He and his wife suffered minor injuries, including cuts from broken windshield.

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