North Carolina woman films snake slithering across windshield

July 18 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman parked her SUV and crawled into the back seat when she spotted a snake slithering out from under the hood of her car.

Justyn Knox posted a video to YouTube showing the snake she spotted slithering out from under her hood and onto her windshield while she was driving to work Friday morning in downtown Raleigh.

"How am I going to get out of the car?" Knox says in the video. "What am I going to do about it?"

The video cuts for a moment so Knox can call animal control. The video then shows the snake crawling across the windshield of the parked car as Knox makes her way to the back seat.

"I was determined to go through the trunk if I had to," Knox told WTVD-TV. "I was scared the snake was gonna come through the AC vent for some reason."

Knox said the snake, which she estimated to be 5-6 feet long, eventually used a low-hanging branch to climb a tree. She said animal control told her they would not remove the snake from its natural habitat.

Knox said she has started parking a block away from the tree, as she is nervous the snake could still be there.

"The country snake is now a city snake," Knox said. "I dropped him off at the Lt. Governor's mansion!"