An investigation was launched into the premature release of this year's 'turtle through windscreen' story. The report was, as usual, scheduled to run during May.
Woman gashed in the head after turtle crashes through windshield – April 22 2021

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Turtle crashes through Georgia driver’s windshield along Savannah freeway - May 26, 2020

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Turtle crashes through South Carolina driver's windshield on the highway – May 3, 2019

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Turtle Crashes Through Woman's Windshield on Florida Interstate – May 13, 2016

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Interestingly – collisions with turtles have their own medical injury code (W59.22XA: Struck by Turtle).
There is a long tradition of such stories.:
The more famous but equally unverifiable turtle impact happened in 456 B.C., when the Greek playwright Aeschylus (author of The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, and Euripides Is a Big Fat Idiot) is said to have been killed by a turtle. The story is that the turtle was dropped on him by an eagle, which presumably was hoping to crack the turtle's shell open on a rock but mistakenly hit the playwright's bald head.
Nevertheless the premature release of this year's version is inexcusable and should be punished.