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Posted on 08/17/2025 3:53:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
A Russian model and former beauty queen has succumbed to her injuries after an elk smashed through the windshield of her car early last month.
Kseniya Alexandrova, 30, was in the car with her husband, Ilya, on a highway in Tver Oblast, Russia – the two married only four months before – when the several-hundred-pound animal jumped in front of their Porsche.
She had been in a coma with severe brain injuries, People and Russian news outlets reported.
Her husband, who was behind the wheel, survived. “From the moment it jumped out to the impact, a split second passed. I didn’t have time to do anything,” Alexandrova’s husband explained, according to the report.
The accident occurred on July 5th as the couple were driving home from Rzhev. The former beauty queen was immediately unconscious after impact, the husband told reporters.
“Everything was covered in blood,” her husband said.
Other drivers stopped to help. But despite a quick response by emergency services and transport to a hospital in Moscow, the head trauma eventually proved fatal on August 12.
Alexandrova represented Russia in the Miss Universe pageant in 2017. According to US Weekly, she was also first runner-up in the Miss Russia competition that same year.
The model was also a practicing psychologist with a degree from Moscow Pedagogical State University, according to a 2022 post on her Instagram page. She was still working as a therapist up until the accident, US Weekly reported.
Alexandrova’s modeling agency, Modus Vivendis, shared the news of her death in a statement this week. “Kseniya was bright [and] talented,” it read, translated from Russian in the People report. “She knew how to inspire, support and give warmth to everyone who was around. For us, she will forever remain a symbol of beauty, kindness and inner strength.”
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One of my former co-workers hit a deer on his Harley on the way to work. He told us about it after he arrived at work that day! Apparently it rolled off the front of the bike and he just carried on.
I THOUGHT “MISS XXXXX” CONTESTANTS WERE SINGLE.
THE WORST ANIMAL YOU EVER WANT TO HIT IS A FULL GROWN PIG ......
SIMILAR TO HITTING A LARGE BOULDER....
WILL LAUNCH YOU—NO MATTER THE CAR.
I hear there are a lot of deaths in Alaska from moose going through windshields.
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Hitting either a moose or an elk is something that usually results in death or, at a minimum, serious injury.
You obviously did not even read the OP!
Happened to my mother and uncle years ago in Newfoundland. He had picked mom up at the airport and they were driving about 90 minutes to their home. It was late at night and a giant moose jumped out in front of the car. Fortunately they both survived, with minor injuries, although the car was totaled.
RIP, dear Lady.
That’s good advice to hit it straight on- but it’s tough NOT to swerve. Sometimes not even a second to take foot off gas. Had a half ton moose do a “ cha- cha-cha “ once route to Dartmouth for daughter’s field hockey game. Doing nearly 85mph, we arrived minutes later still in shock.
She was a contestant in 2017. But Miss Universe no longer rquires woman to be single as of a 2022 rulle change.
The Miss Universe pageant is updating its 70-year-old eligibility rule.
Effective for the 72nd pageant — which will take place in 2023 — married women and mothers will be allowed to compete in the pageant.
Preliminary pageants for this year’s event — which happens in December — have already taken place.
Currently, the rule states that only single women aged 18 and 28, who have never been married or had children are allowed to apply.
In Europe, what they call “elk” is actually what we call “moose.”
I’ve hit deer on 2 separate occasions in my younger years.
Destroyed the first car, and about $2500 damage/repair on the second.
Oh, rest in peace for her. Sad to see her leave us so soon.
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I used to follow a herd of elk that frequented a particular playground near my former residence. Mind you, always keeping a healthy distance and a few trees between me and them. Made for some really good video. They are EXTREMELY LARGE animals, and if you are lucky enough to get a snort, stomp and mock charge from the bull, you best know its time to leave.
Also, as a truck driver, one important safety lesson about them (and elk, when I drove in those areas) is STOP - DO NOT APPROACH, and never use your horn - they take it as a challenge and will destroy an 18-wheeler in less time than it takes for you to say “HOLY #%%&!”
I meant to say moose in parentheses.
Wow!
The rule of thumb I’ve heard is run into a deer rather than risk going off of the road, but run off the road rather than risk hitting an elk or moose.
My friend in Alaska was a photographer for the Anchorage Times in the ‘70s and ‘80s. He was forever shooting accident pics of car vs moose.
The worst was when a very small sports car hit a very large moose broadside. There were decapitations. The car went under and through the moose.
Smart thinking!
I have lived and/or driven in Wisconsin since I was 16 years old. We are famous for deer/car collisions.
After 49 years I hit my first deer. It was a small buck. He glanced off the hood of my VW Golf, leaving a big dent, but he stuck the landing and I watched him run off to the other side of the road. After my heart stopped pounding, I spied his ‘friend’ who was still in the right-side ditch contemplating what to do next. ;)
Lucky for us all, really!
Beau had the ‘Three Deer and a Steer’ year where he hit two deer and one steer with his big F-350 monster truck with little to no damages, and a co-worker hit a deer on his way in to work and gave it to Beau because he knew we’d make use of it.
The freezers were full that year!
My sister’s car is named “Deerslayer”.
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