A dog in Brazil is recovering after surviving a 55-mile journey wedged in the grille of a car.
The dog was in the middle of a road near Itapetinga when it was hit by
the car. The driver claims he saw the dog, swerved to avoid hitting it,
but heard a "thud" as he came upon the dog. But driver Julia Cesar
Siqueria kept driving, knowing he had hit the animal, "'I was traveling
at speed and knew it could not have survived the collision,
so I kept driving."
What Siqueria didn't know was that
the poor dog was actually wedged in his car's front bumper grille.
It wasn't until Siqueria arrived at his destination 55 miles away that
he noticed passers-by frantically waving him down to alert him. Rescuers
were shocked to find the female dog still alive and conscious.
Firefighters and a vet were able to pry the mixed-breed out of the car and take it to a local clinic.
Amazingly, the animal was found to only have a broken leg. The
dog has been named "Vitoria," which means "victory" in English, after
the name of the town where she was rescued. Siqueria has reportedly
agreed to pay for the dog's treatment.
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