OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma couple driving home from church nearly slammed into an elephant that had escaped from a nearby circus late Wednesday.
“Didn’t have time to hit the brakes,’’ driver Bill Carpenter said. “The elephant blended in with the road. At the very last second I said, ‘Elephant!’ ’’
Carpenter, 68, said he swerved and only sideswiped the Asian elephant on US 81 in Enid.
“So help me, Hanna, had I hit that elephant, not swerved, it would have knocked it off its legs, and it would have landed right on top of us,’’ he said. “We’d have been history.’’
