Alberta driver blames his speeding Mercedes on wayward B.C. elk

Everyone knows that Superman is faster than a speeding bullet, but is a speeding driver faster than an average elk?
An Alberta driver who claimed that his excessive speed was an attempt to avoid a specimen of Cervus canadensis — aka the North American elk — found that it didn’t wash with the BC Highway Patrol (BCHP) officer who pulled him over on Highway 3/95 near Moyie on Dec. 30.
The driver of a Mercedes SUV was clocked doing 160 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. When he was asked why