--- description: A snake seems to be frozen to a windshield in photo from ABC 7 New York traffic reporter title: Snake Frozen to a Windshield: Photos image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Traffic Reporter Drives Around With Snake Frozen to Her Windshield  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jan 6, 2016 7:51 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jan 6, 2016 7:51 PM CUT 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): ```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"}}]}] ```