Vancouver driver freaks out over spider, flips car into stranger’s yard

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A Vancouver woman who lost control of her vehicle upon seeing a spider and wound up upside-down in a stranger’s driveway has been released from hospital without major injury. 

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The incident occurred around 1 p.m. on Monday, September 13 on East Braemar Road in North Vancouver, when the 50-year-old North Vancouver woman allegedly spotted her nemesis, the in-most-cases-completely-harmless Canadian spider, and temporarily succumbed to phobia. 

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Her vehicle, a black Toyota Corolla with an N magnet on the back, left the road, striking a stump in a yard that sent it flipping until it came to rest upside down on the red bricks of a driveway. A photo of the vehicle shows significant damage to its front, roof, and windows. 

The owner of the property where the vehicle crashed says this isn’t the first time an accident has occurred on or near her place. 

“Fortunately, nobody was walking on the sidewalk, or working in our garden, or driveway,” she told local media . 

As for the spider, hopefully it found its way out of the wreckage and is currently spinning a web in its new North Van home, and not laying eggs in the car waiting for its victim to get it back from the shop.  

Insects and other animals getting into vehicles is an inevitability. When it happens, remain calm, pull over, and deal with the animal in a safe and humane way. Just like these women did when they spotted a massive spider in their too-small car while driving down the highway.