Watch: Bear Charges Car

Two people in Yakutat, Alaska, were driving down a windy two-lane road in early July when a bear charged out of the woods at them.

The brown bear (Ursus arctos) was ahead of them in the road when they spotted it and slowed down to let it finish crossing. As they drove past the spot where the bear had disappeared into the trees, it came barreling back out onto the road, charging straight at them.

Cody Kunau, the fishing guide for Yakutat Lodge who captured the footage, wrote in the video’s description that they turned the car around to see if there were bear cubs or food sources nearby that could have made the bear so agitated, but they couldn’t see

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