“The animal hit the car with such force, the windshield shattered. Luckily, the family inside, though surprised, was not injured.
“It happened quick. We were turning into the passing lane on I-88 and it came out of nowhere. I didn’t know what exactly it was, and the frightening part was we didn’t exactly know what we had hit,” said passenger Andrew Noble.
It turned out to be a bobcat, but in unusual circumstances.
Noble of Warnerville, his fiance Alisha Irvin and son were on I-88, coming back from the son’s wrestling match in Guilderland Monday around 8 p.m., when they hit an animal dangling on a cord.
“Yeah it was hanging from the overpass on a piece of 550 paracord and it struck us right in the windshield and yeah, it was — bam!!” said Noble.”
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Tucker, Kumi. Channel 13 News 10 January 2023.