--- title: Snake Frozen to a Windshield: Photos description: A snake seems to be frozen to a windshield in photo from ABC 7 New York traffic reporter canonical: https://time.com/4169611/snake-frozen-windshield/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-06T19:51:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:23.589Z og:title: Snake Frozen to a Windshield: Photos og:description: A snake seems to be frozen to a windshield in photo from ABC 7 New York traffic reporter og:url: https://time.com/4169611/snake-frozen-windshield/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Snake Frozen to a Windshield: Photos twitter:description: A snake seems to be frozen to a windshield in photo from ABC 7 New York traffic reporter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Traffic Reporter Drives Around With Snake Frozen to Her Windshield  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 6, 2016 7:51 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 6, 2016 7:51 PM UTC Heather O’Rourke, a traffic reporter for WABC-TV in New York, posted photos of what she says is a snake frozen to the windshield of her car in New Jersey. She says she discovered it while driving a car pool for her daughter’s swim team, and wrote on Facebook that her husband thinks it might have fallen from a tree. “Yes, I drove to and from practice with this thing on my windshield,” she wrote on Facebook. “I wasn’t going to scrap that off! Ew!” Below is another picture of the vehicle in motion (dare we suggest, _slithering_ through traffic): Snake Frozen to a Windshield: Photos ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4169611/snake-frozen-windshield/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4169611/snake-frozen-windshield/"},"headline":"Traffic Reporter Drives Around With Snake Frozen to Her Windshield","datePublished":"2016-01-06T19:51:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:23.589Z","description":"Sssscary!","url":"https://time.com/4169611/snake-frozen-windshield/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4169611/snake-frozen-windshield/","name":"Traffic Reporter Drives Around With Snake Frozen to Her Windshield"}}]}] ```