Fleeing bushbuck collides with Merc
By
Le Roux Schoeman | Published 3 August 2010
This leopard caught this bushbuck after it hit a car on a road in the southern Kruger National Park.
Date: 3 August 2010
Go! reader Piet Steyn believes he caught on film the tail end of a “freak accident” during a recent game drive in the Kruger National Park.
Piet and his family were driving in two vehicles towards Lower Sabie Rest Camp on Sunday, 18 July 2010 when a bushbuck ran full tilt into the side of the second vehicle, a Mercedes. The rattled game watchers turned around to check on the antelope and saw to their astonishment that the bushbuck had become a leopard’s prey.
Piet says: “We suspect the bushbuck was being chased by the leopard when it ran into the Mercedes.”
Pictures of the car taken subsequently show a dent in the back door, but fortunately none of the passengers were hurt.
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