Trucker Mike York might have rather been hunting after Thanksgiving, but when he was driving his Peterbilt through Kentucky this past week, he became the hunted.

York was driving along I-71 near Walton on Wednesday afternoon when a turkey rose out of a ravine and flew straight into his windshield, local media reports said.

"He was 25 pounds, if not bigger, and he was flying up when he really just hit square on my driver-side windshield," York, still bleeding from dozens of gashes opened up by the spray of windshield glass across the face, told The Kentucky Post.

"He bent the sun visor outside and broke the windshield into a million pieces. Then both the windshield and the turkey came right in on me."

Walton Fire Chief Don McIntyre, whose paramedics responded to the accident, told the newspaper, "When we heard it come in, I have to say, we all just started laughin'."

York, of Andover, NY, said he drove with the dead turkey riding shotgun to the nearest truckstop. York refused medical treatment.

He took the incident in stride and explained it was just one of those things you run into on the road. York was, however, impressed he was able to stay in his lane with a heavy over-sized machinery load in tow.

"I looked over and saw the windshield and the turkey on the passenger seat ... and then I looked up and the truck was right there in the lane where it was ... right where I was supposed to be. I thought, well I sure did something right."