FOUR burger-eating pals bit off more than they could chew when their car collided with a bull with a bad attitude as they returned home from a trip to McDonald's.

The four, who suffered minor injuries, were unable to escape after their car had collided with the half-ton bull, as it continued to threaten the car, at one point putting its head against the door. The car was written off, although the he bull was not badly injured.

Robert Underwood, 18, was driving the Peugeot 106 back to Selby, North Yorkshire, when it collided with the bull on the A1041.

Passenger Carlo Cunningham, 18, said: "We were driving back from McDonalds and it was wet and dark and the road conditions weren't great.

"There was this huge black beast of a bull in the road and, although Robert tried to avoid it, we crashed into it.

"I suffered a blow to the head and I have pains in my neck and legs. It could have been far worse, somebody could have been killed."

Police said they had been alerted by a member of the public that the bull was on the loose, about an hour before the collision, but later had a report that it had been herded into a field.

After the collision, police considered calling in a marksman to shoot the animal, by then lying in a ditch, but it was considered too dark to take the risk.

Next morning, it emerged that the bull was not badly hurt and it was taken to safety.