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Shocking video captured the moment a moose kicked an Alaska woman in the head while she was walking her dog.

Tracy Hansen was taking her pooch, Gunner, for a stroll when she felt something hit her in the head Thursday in Anchorage, news station KTUU reported.

“I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something,” Hansen told the outlet. “I had put my hands up to my head, and I’m like, ‘I’m bleeding.’”

When Hansen sat up, she realized she had gotten clocked by a moose.

“Knowing that the moose had been somewhere behind me and now, here this moose is in front of me, and I’m like, was that the moose,” she told KTUU.


  Anchorage resident Tracy Hansen was captured on video being kicked in the head by a moose while she was walking her dog. Courtesy of Kate Timmons Anchorage resident Tracy Hansen was captured on video being kicked in the head by a moose while she was walking her dog. Courtesy of Kate Timmons

  Shocking video shows a moose in Anchorage, Alaska, kicking Tracy Hansen in the head. Courtesy of Kate Timmons Shocking video shows a moose in Anchorage, Alaska, kicking Tracy Hansen in the head. Courtesy of Kate Timmons

Footage captured by motorist Kate Timmons shows the large animal charge Hansen from behind, kicking her in the head as it leaped over her on Old Seward Highway.

“My husband was able to pull her over the snowbank, so we could get her in the truck with her dog and kind of get her out of the way,” Timmons told the station.

“It definitely seemed unprovoked from our standpoint and it happened so fast it was just like, a matter of getting her out of the situation, getting her help, making sure, you know my big thing was that she didn’t have a head trauma, that there wasn’t a bleed or something,” she added.


  Tracy Hansen (left) and Kate Timmons, who captured the shocking video and rushed to the victim’s aid. KTUU Tracy Hansen (left) and Kate Timmons, who captured the shocking video and rushed to the victim’s aid. KTUU

  “I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something,” Hansen said. KTUU “I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something,” Hansen said. KTUU

  Kare Timmons, who captured video of the attack, rushed to help the injured Hansen. KTUU Kare Timmons, who captured video of the attack, rushed to help the injured Hansen. KTUU

Hansen said she was fortunate that Timmons happened to be driving by at that moment.

“Kate and I were discussing that the Lord put her in the right place, at the right time to be able to help,” she said.

Hansen is still recovering from the incident, which left her with staples in her head, but said it would not change her routine.

“We’ll be back on our normal walks. The moose won’t stop that,” she told KTUU.

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