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A very lucky coyote is currently recovering in a Chicago-area wildlife rehabilitation center after it was hit by a truck and then trapped in the vehicle’s grill.
The driver, who struck the coyote around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 24, thought he may have hit something but didn’t see anything. He drove six more miles to a train station in Waukegan, Illinois, the Lake County News-Sun reports.There, onlookers noticed an animal they thought was a fox wedged inside his truck’s front bumper. They soon learned they were dealing, instead, with a coyote.
An animal control officer with the Waukegan Police Department freed the coyote, who appeared to be in shock. The officer then called the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation center, which agreed to take the animal in for medical treatment.