Dog’s amazing 70mph highway escape from car
Published: August 3, 2006
A LABRADOR pup who amazingly survived a 70mph fall from a moving car and who limped across three lanes of motorway traffic with a fractured pelvis has been reunited with his owner.
Fonzy, who is six months old, jumped from the car being driven by owner Rachel Nash on the southbound carriageway of the M18 near junction 5 at Hatfield at around 3pm on Wednesday last week.
She didn’t discover he had jumped until she reached the junction with the M1 and immediately returned to the area to begin a frantic three-day search for her pet.
“We were driving at around 70mph going south and we didn’t even notice him jumping out,” Said Rachel, 24, a horse trainer from Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
“I and a friend had spent the day looking at a horse and on the beach at Scarborough with Fonzy and I just thought he was asleep in the back.
“We had the window open a little because it was so hot and the only thing I can think of is that he was playing with a tennis ball in the back and it bounced out of the window - and he followed it.
“We immediately contacted the police when we saw he was missing and they told us straight away that another motorist had reported seeing him jump from our car.”
Rachel spent the next three days searching for Fonzy, staying for two nights in hotels and covering the Hatfield and Thorne areas with missing dog posters while searching for the pup.
“We didn’t know where he had gone out of the car at the time so we just went back and put up posters in the all the places near to the M18. It was terrible not knowing what had happened to him.
“Then on Saturday, three days after he went missing we received a phone call from limousine driver who saw Fonzy in a hedge at 3am at the Travelodge very near where he had jumped from the car.
“We went straight to get him, Fonzy was just so happy to see us but he was shaking because he was in so much pain.
“He must have crossed three lanes of traffic to get onto the north side of the road after falling.”
Fonzy has been examined by vets and underwent surgery on Monday to repair his broken pelvis.
Rachel said: ”I’m just so happy to have him back, he’s very poorly but the vet says that he will be all right in the long run. He’s a very lucky dog.”
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