ANCORAGE, Alaska – A lady walking her dog was started the head by a moose that charged her on the walkway along a city street.
The lady, Tracy Hansen, required a number of staples in her head to close an injury, however is recuperating now. She was helped by a passersby who captured the occurrence on video.
Hansen, in an interview with KTUU TV in Anchoragesaid she was walking her dog, Gunner, last Thursday, Feb. 16, on the path they take 3 times a day in Anchorage when she was knocked to the ground.
“I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something,” Hansen said. “I had put my hands up to my head, and I’m like, ‘I’m bleeding.’”
When Hansen stayed up she observed the moose that she and Gunner had actually strolled by earlier was now in front of her.
“Knowing that the moose had been somewhere behind me, and now here this moose is in front of me, and I’m like ‘Was that the moose?’” Hansen informed KTTU.
Kate Timmons and her family were increasing the street. Timmons told Storyful Video she had her mobile phone out to play a tune for her child and started to tape video when they identified the moose. It was then that she recognized the moose was following Hansen, she said.
In the video, Timmons is heard stating the moose “is chasing this person” and shouts “watch out” as the moose runs towards Hansen and is seen kicking her in the head.
“We slowed down to not agitate the moose, but as we realized this moose was already in full pursuit of the victim, we decided to speed up, honk and shout to alert her,” Timmons said.
After the moose kicked Hansen, Timmons and her other half pulled Hansen over a snowbank towards the roadway and required emergency situation workers.
“My husband was able to help pull her over the snowbank, so we could get her in the truck with her dog and kind of get her out of the way,” Timmons informed KTUU. “It happened so fast it was just like, a matter of getting her out of the situation, getting her help.”
Hansen was entrusted contusions and some headaches however was back to her everyday regimen a couple of days later on.
“We’ll be back on our normal walks,” Hansen informed KTUU today. “The moose won’t stop that.”
