A Youtube video of a snake crawling onto the windshield of an SUV near Memphis in Tennessee has become a internet hit.
Hundreds of thousands of people have viewed "Snake on Car" since it was posted July 17th.
Tony Fisher of Collierville told WMC-TV the snake came straight up from the left side of the bonnet as his wife Rachel was driving at about 100km/h down the motorway. Their children were also in the car.
The family spent the previous night at a relative's home in a wooded area, and think the snake curled up in the car overnight.
The confused reptile slithered out from under the bonnet and crawled across the windshield and the driver side mirror before falling off onto the road. Its current whereabouts are unknown.
"We were moving, there was nothing to grab on to, so it tried to crawl down the side of my door and fell off,” Ms Fisher said.
Experts at the Memphis Zoo said it appeared to be a gray rat snake, which is not poisonous.
The Fishers have been the subject of much vitriol on Youtube from commentators asking why they didn't stop to let the snake escape rather than driving on and letting it fall to its probable death.