An Arizona driver on the State Route 51 is lucky to be alive after a four-foot iron pole flew off a truck in front of her and impaled through her vehicle’s windshield and into the center back seat. narrowly missing the woman behind the wheel.
The iron pole narrowly missing the woman behind the wheel, serves as a grave reminder from the Arizona Department of Public Safety to people hauling items to make sure everything is tied down and secure.
“A driver who failed to properly secure their load nearly cost an innocent motorist her life
yesterday [Thursday],” DPS said in a Facebook post Friday.
DPS reported that the woman was driving along State Route 51 Thursday morning when thetruck in front of her “hit a bump in the roadway near Thomas Road, causing a four-foot-long iron pole to dislodge from the trailer and impale the windshield of the Nissan SUV directly behind it.”
“The pole went through the center of the windshield and became lodged between the centerback seat and the roof of the vehicle,” DPS said.
Photos taken showed a massive puncture in the front windshield and the rectangular metalpole smashed into the back seat, while another part became lodged in part of the vehicle’s roof.
The driver of the truck did not stop and has not been found, according to DPS
