Driver injured after turkey flies into vehicle on KC-area highway: ‘So bizarre’
Kylie Mullin was driving at highway speeds Wednesday when she spotted a turkey barreling toward her and the car next to her.
The bird, which was flying across the median on Highway 50 near the Blackwell Road interchange in Lee’s Summit, narrowly missed her Jeep, then struck the vehicle next to her and wound up in the driver’s lap. Initially, Mullin wondered if the turkey had managed to slip in the car’s open window.
“I just heard this giant smack and then in my sideview mirror, I see her flapping her hands around,” she said. “It went in her car. It was so bizarre.”
The other vehicle swerved and narrowly missed a collision, Mullin said. She called 911 and asked for someone to check on the woman, knowing she would be startled by what had happened.
“I did not even think turkeys could fly that well, but this thing was coming in hot,” Mullin said.
First responders checked on the woman.
According to a summary of the response passed on to The Star by Lee’s Summit police Sgt. Chris Depue, the woman was headed east on the highway and “...the next thing she knew her driver’s side glass was breaking, and a turkey was in her lap. Turkey died in her passenger side floorboard.”
The woman had minor injuries and was shaken up, and first responders helped with cleanup, according to police.
“Officer went to remove the turkey, and she said no she was keeping it,” police said.
Said Mullin: “I’m just thinking, imagine going down the highway at 60 miles per hour, there’s no way she even saw it coming because she was right next to me, and it was pretty low in the median, and then boom, you have a turkey in your lap? I was just like, what?!”
