A bat that flew into the open window of a SUV tooling along South Avenue, hitting the driver in the neck, has tested negative for rabies, officials say.
At about 9:54 p.m. on Aug. 22 (a week ago Friday), a 24-year-old New Canaan man was driving along South Avenue near Grace Street when a bat flew in through the open window of his ’07 Acura MDX and struck him in the neck, according to a police report.
The motorist picked it up, alive, before he realized just what it was, and threw it back out the window, according to Animal Control Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt.
Police located the bat on the side of the road, put it into a coffee can, made sure it was dead and then sent it to a state lab for testing.
New Canaan is full of bats just now, males that have been kicked out of their nests by females who recently had babies. At least one home, on Forest Street, is said to have a real problem with them.
Here’s where the bat-in-open-window incident happened: