Early on September 24, Mark Armour thought his car hit something on his way to work as a train conductor — but he didn’t see anything, so he kept driving.

When he pulled into the employee parking lot, people at the train station in Waukegan, Illinois, were shocked to see a coyote wedged in the grill of his vehicle.

“It was even more amazing he survived,” Amber Manley, an animal control officer for the Waukegan Police Department who was called to the scene, told the Sun-Times.

Using safety equipment to protect herself from a potential coyote bite, Manley freed the animal from the truck and placed it in an animal control crate. ”He seemed docile,” she said of the coyote, who was likely in shock.