Scrap lumber on highway versus the windshield (work safe)

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:36 pm

http://jalopnik.com/#!5788579/the-scari ... t-on-video

This is absolutely unbelievable footage although I'm not sure why this driver was recording passing traffic while driving. Jalopnik puts it best: You'll also remember why it's so ridiculously stupid to take camera phone video while driving.

I guess this is reason #7298658 not to tailgate on the highway, as you can't see what the vehicle(s) in front of you are getting ready to toss into your oncoming car.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:00 pm

If you pause the video on 0:31 you see nothing. At 0:32 the lumber is in mid air but I still can't tell where it came from.

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:26 pm

Vincent Keene wrote:

If you pause the video on 0:31 you see nothing. At 0:32 the lumber is in mid air but I still can't tell where it came from.

You either need a better computer or monitor.

I can clearly see it get kicked up from the driver side tire of the trailer. - AB

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:30 pm

This happened in NC as well. (Same event)

http://jalopnik.com/#!5789082/the-scari ... o-was-real

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:54 pm

Video made me jump in my seat when it happened. If it was me, there would have been a lot of foul language on the video right after the board hit.

Someone took the orig and did a slow motion version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cZWuZoPuk&NR=1

Jason Mauldin · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:27 pm

If you follow the slow motion video, you can see the outline of it on the road fairly easily.

That video is almost unbelievable. There would've been MUCH more narrating going on, had that happened to me. How does jalopnik get an "exclusive" on something like this?

I've picked something up off the road before that ripped a 2" long gash into the sheet metal behind my tire. It almost seemed like it was a wrench or something along that size. I hate to think of what that could've done to a windshield.

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:38 am

I have had one mysterious object hit my windshield like that. It hit about as fast, but didn't come through. It did crack/spiderweb the windshield and if I would guess (it was a fraction of a second so I didn't get a good look), I think it was a piece of rubber about the size of a tennis or golf ball (maybe a chunk from a truck tire?) It was on I-40 and I think was kicked up by a car on the opposing lane, came across a concrete divider and hit the driver side window. At speeds like that there is no "ducking" to avoid something large enough to come through the window. It was like my brain registered what had happened after it had already hit.

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