A koala is alive after a driver unknowingly drove for about 10 miles while the animal clung to the inside of his cars wheel arch, animal officials said.

The driver was in Adelaide, Australia, on Sept. 9 when he said he heard strange noises coming from his car, according to the local nonprofit Fauna Rescue.

He heard crying or a noise under his car, and when he investigated found the koala up under the front wheel arch, Jane Brister from Fauna Rescue told Irish news site Newstalk . It would have been a drive downhill through very winding roads.