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I went to pickup my mom at the airport tonight. She just got back from visiting my brothers in Whistler. On the way there I was driving cautiously because the roads were bad. When I got close to the airport I spotted a big moose on the side of the road with what seemed to be a smaller moose. I had a chance to slow down and avoid hitting it. At this time of the year they come out to lick the salt from the roads. On my way back from the airport I saw a bunch of flashing lights from the distance. I knew someone had hit that moose because it was at the very same spot. Sure enough as we got closer we saw a damaged taxi cab and a dead moose. The taxi hit the moose on the driver side and the moose flew over the top of the taxi. Luckily the taxi only hit the smaller moose. The driver of the cab was standing and seemed fine as the paramedics were taking care of him. It doesn’t surprise me that the taxi hit the moose. It seems like taxi drivers are always in a rush to pickup their fares. The road to the airport is a bad one and out of all people taxi drivers should know that. Winter driving is bad to start off with but you have to watch those moose at night when they salt the roads in Northern Ontario.

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