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It was around 5 a.m. Monday and Tom Canning was driving to his salmon fishing spot in northern Newfoundland. A car passed him, going in the opposite direction on the highway. Its windshield was smashed and the roof was almost completely ripped off, but somehow, it was still cruising along at 100 km/h. He got a glimpse of the driver and swore the man had no head.

Canning looked in his rearview mirror and saw the car swerving in and out of the oncoming lane.

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“I had to stop him, one way or another,” he said in an interview Thursday.

So the fisherman turned his car around and started to chase the tattered blue Toyota. He followed it for two kilometres, going as fast as 110 km/h, until he saw a tractor-trailer coming toward them. Canning watched, helpless, as the car skipped over the yellow line and into the truck’s path.

“I don’t know how he stayed on the road,” he said.

The car dipped back into the right lane and stopped, waiting for the truck to pass so it could make a left turn onto a gravel road.