A local man suffered minor injuries after losing control of his car while attempting to capture a cat inside his vehicle, crashing his car into a vehicle carrying seven foreign visitors. Neither the cat nor the foreign visitors were harmed. The cat, which ran away from the scene of the accident was later caught by police, and returned to its caretaker.
According to a post on the Facebook page of the Police in West Iceland the accident took place last week on the ring-road by the mountain Hafnarfjall, to the south-east of the town of Borgarnes in West Iceland. The man was driving North with a cat when the cat somehow managed to escaped from its cage.
According to the police the man attempted to capture the cat while he was still driving the car. However, chasing a cat inside a speeding vehicle, especially if you are the driver, is generally not considered safe driving. The driver therefore lost control of the vehicle, which veered into the other lane and oncoming traffic. The car hit one car coming from the opposite direction before crashing head-on into a second car.
None of the people in the other car were injured, and the man suffered only minor injuries. After police arrived at the scene the cat, which had run off into the nearby shrubbery, was caught. “When the cat had finally been caught he was probably down one of its seven lives, with six left”, as the Police in West Iceland mused on its Facebook page.
A local man suffered minor injuries after losing control of his car while attempting to capture a cat inside his vehicle, crashing his car into a vehicle carrying seven foreign visitors. Neither the cat nor the foreign visitors were harmed. The cat, which ran away from the scene of the accident was later caught by police, and returned to its caretaker.
According to a post on the Facebook page of the Police in West Iceland the accident took place last week on the ring-road by the mountain Hafnarfjall, to the south-east of the town of Borgarnes in West Iceland. The man was driving North with a cat when the cat somehow managed to escaped from its cage.
According to the police the man attempted to capture the cat while he was still driving the car. However, chasing a cat inside a speeding vehicle, especially if you are the driver, is generally not considered safe driving. The driver therefore lost control of the vehicle, which veered into the other lane and oncoming traffic. The car hit one car coming from the opposite direction before crashing head-on into a second car.
None of the people in the other car were injured, and the man suffered only minor injuries. After police arrived at the scene the cat, which had run off into the nearby shrubbery, was caught. “When the cat had finally been caught he was probably down one of its seven lives, with six left”, as the Police in West Iceland mused on its Facebook page.
