SEATTLE — A dog fell from an overpass onto a moving car on Interstate 5 Thursday afternoon.
Just after 5 p.m., witnesses say the dog landed on top of the windshield of a car heading northbound on I-5, just past the North 85th Street overpass.
The driver pulled over to the side of the road and the dog was alive and alert, looking around, despite not moving from its resting spot on top of the car.
A few Good Samaritans stopped to help, and a trooper arrived on the scene shortly after. The dog was then carefully transported to the backseat of another car using fabrics.
According to witnesses, the dog was taken to the ER at a veterinary medical center in Shoreline.
Just after 8 p.m., KIRO 7 learned that the dog was alive and stable, and the worried owner had been reunited with the miracle pup, named ‘Skye’.
As for the driver, he’s still trying to make sense of what happened.
“At first it was so bizarre that I couldn’t really even comprehend what was happening because you know all of a sudden there’s a dog on the front of my car,” said the driver, Peregrin Jones.
Jones says he pulled over immediately, finding the dog upright and, most importantly, alive.
“It was very calm as long as I was there and kind of calmed it. It seemed to be interested in just staying put on the windshield and understood that it should protect itself,” said Jones.
Luckily, despite the damage to his car, Jones was uninjured, likely due to the slow-moving rush hour traffic and strong windshield.
At 10 p.m., ‘Skye’ was released from the medical center and sent home with her owner. A doctor at the clinic confirmed to KIRO 7 that the dog had no significant injuries.
It is unclear at this time how the dog fell from the overpass, but Trooper Johnson with the Washington State Patrol said that they are investigating the incident.