One man says the elk ran in front of his car on his way to work before dashing into the bushes, nearly causing what's known in Finland as a hirvikolari - a specific type of road accident involving an elk. "My first thought was - there is no way I am going to end up having a hirvikolari in [central Helsinki]," Matti Murtoniemi tells Ilta-Sanomat newspaper . The animal then wandered around Helsinki's famous Kaivopuisto restaurant and the Turkish embassy, the paper adds.