Metal impales windshield, hits driver in head

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HIS GUARDIAN ANGEL WAS WITH HIM AT THAT MOMENT


Metal impales windshield, hits driver in head on NYS Thruway; driver survives (photos)

Updated 10:54 AM; Today 10:54 AM




A man was driving on the New York State Thruway in DeWitt on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, when a metal object flew into and pierced his truck window. The man was hit in the head, but survived, firefighters said.East Syracuse Fire Department


DeWitt, N.Y. — A driver survived after a piece of metal flew through his windshield and hit him in the head Thursday on the New York State Thruway in DeWitt.



The man was driving on Interstate 90 west near Exit 35 shortly before 1 p.m. when the metal impaled his truck’s windshield, according to the East Syracuse Fire Department and the New York State Police’s incident logs. The metal struck the driver’s side of the truck, piercing the window and hitting the driver in the head.


The driver pulled over onto the side of the Thruway and stopped his truck, firefighters said. When emergency responders arrived, he was conscious and breathing, firefighters said.






East Area Volunteer Emergency Services Ambulance transported the man to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse.



The man told responders a flatbed tractor-trailer carrying junk cars was driving in front of him before the crash, firefighters said.



Troopers are investigating the crash.


www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/02/metal-impales-windshield-hits-driver-in-head-on-nys-thruway-driver-survives-photos.html

Amazing!

[artsyone]

Amazing he lived. A kind God was watching over him.

[Clipper]

Wow! I am trying to discern exactly what other metal parts are in the photo. He is very lucky indeed. I have always been leery of following one of those flatbeds hauling crushed junk cars. There is quite often something dangling or a sheet metal body part flapping in the wind. In my opinion junk cars should be hauled in a closed side, open top trailer which would prevent loose parts from falling on the roadway.

I ran across a grizzly scene one time on the Massachusetts Turnpike that involved a flatbed tractor trailer that had lost a spare tire that had been strapped to the gooseneck on the trailer. That huge trailer tire had bounced on the road and went through the windshield of a van and killed an elderly couple instantly. I managed the 235 vehicle fleet for the 485th EIG at the time. We had three lowboy equipment trailers. I immediately arranged to have sturdy pad eyes welded on each side of the goose neck so that a chain could be threaded through the holes in the truck tire's rim and secured with a chain binder so the tire could not move.

A few years ago Kathy and I were on our way home to NY for vacation and around Chambersburg Pa. we ran across flashing lights and a lane closure due to a full sized fiberglass bass boat laying in the road all smashed to hell, being loaded on a tilt bed tow truck while a very sad and dejected looking owner was talking to a Pennsylvania trooper. The boat obviously had not been tied or strapped down when the guy loaded it up and headed out for a day of fishing. I can't imagine what would have happened if a car had been following closely behind him.