Posted on 07/30/2014 3:52:22 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Topsfield, Mass. --- (NECN) A motorist traveling on I-95 South in Topsfield, Massachusetts, endured a frightening moment Wednesday morning when an axe struck their vehicle.
A landscaper driving a dump truck had failed to properly secure an axe in its rear cargo area.
The axe came loose, flew off the truck and became lodged in the windshield of a car traveling behind it, nearly striking a passenger.
The female passenger sat terrified in her seat after it all happened, with an axe lodged in the glass just inches from her face. She was covered in glass.
"She was very shaken up. I asked her if she was injured, she said she wasn't," said Lt. Risteen.
The truck driver was cited for the failure to secure cargo, which carries a $200 fine.
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Remember Walter?
“Don’t let them do to you, what they did to me.”
Best “fun” I had on a freeway was when a wrecking ball started swinging from a truck.
The driver of the truck, for whatever reasons of navigational control or fear, or maybe abject cluelessness, did not slow down to any significant degree.
He kept plodding along, attempting (not too successfully) to stay in his lane while the ball was lurching and swinging and generally creating a steering challenge, not only for the truck driver, but for the rest of us trying to get around the “drunk” truck.
Traffic was light, and as drivers got their chance, they hit the gas like a bat out of hell and flew past the happy fun ball. I was the third or fourth “in line”.
After I sailed passed, I looked regularly into the mirror until the truck was out of sight. And each time, another driver was running that gauntlet. The game challenge had increased significantly with each glance, as the wayward truck serpentined all over the road.
LOL but dang.
Axe-nado, the movie
Ain’t got no grammar and stuff.
A motorist...struck their vehicle.
A landscaper...its rear cargo area.
These guys get paid for this?
A motorist...struck their vehicle.
A landscaper...its rear cargo area.
These guys get paid for this?
Scary.
A wrench fell off the pickup in front of us while driving down the highway. It was thrown by the front tire into the back tire and then lodged in the wheel well. Back tire went flat immediately. We were so lucky it didn’t hit the windshield.
I had a truck in front of me lose a 55 gallon metal drum, bounced off the pavement onto my hood and then over my car. It was just luck that it didn’t come through the windshield and kill me.
A woman that I used to work with was driving on the freeway when part of a truck (IIRC it was part of the wheel) dislodged. Went through the windshield and hit her directly in the face.
Fortunately, neither the impact or the resulting accident killed her, but she endured many reconstructive facial and dental surgeries.
I also came upon an accident scene in the mountains where a logging truck had lost its load. One of the logs had impaled a vehicle.
Let’s just say I do not follow too closely when driving.
Horrible to get hit by flying stuff, no fault of one’s own. Indeed, don’t follow too closely — but sometimes even then, stuff happens.
I was once the 2nd car behind a truck carrying a backhoe that hit the underside of a concrete overpass because it stuck up too high. The shower of concrete chunks luckily only messed up the sheet metal and windshield of the car ahead of me. I was far enough back to avoid it all.
That happened to a friend's sister. A large rock bounced out of the back of a truck, smashed through the passenger-side windshield, and into her face. She lived, but...
Let’s just say I do not follow too closely when driving.
Neither do I.
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