Motorist in North Carolina Tells 911: ‘I Just Had a Bald Eagle Drop a Cat Through My Windshield’

Motorist in North Carolina Tells 911: ‘I Just Had a Bald Eagle Drop a Cat Through My Windshield’
A smashed windshield after a cat carcass crashed into the car along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina on Nov. 19, 2025. N. C. State Highway Patrol Public Information Office via AP
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A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

In a call to 911, the unidentified driver on U.S. Route 74 in Swain County, near Bryson City, told a dispatcher that a bald eagle dropped the cat. Bryson City is about 65 miles southwest of Asheville.