Yikes.
She looks fine.
Let her walk it off...
Of course the driver didn’t stop. He is not going to know when something that little falls off. He and his company are likely liable, but it never ceases to amaze my why people follow so close to flatbeds or other semis. Absolutely stupid.
I can see this happening. Several years ago, I was coming out of Montgomery, AL on an emergency network server call, northbound on I-85. Rush hour. There was a flatbed rig loaded with logs two vehicles in front of me, and a passenger car between. A splinter of log maybe eight feet long and as big around as your forearm snapped off one of the logs and hit the road. The car directly in front of me swerved to miss it, but hit it at such an angle that it flipped it in the air like a toothpick. I tapped the brakes just in time - the thing speared my front bumper, broke off, and went flying over my car. When I got to where I was going, I saw that it went through my bumper directly on the driver’s side, and left about six inches of the tip sticking partially out. If I hadn’t braked at that precise microsecond (and I was doing about 80 at that moment), it would have come right through my windshield and made a Viking kebab out of me. The auto body shop my insurance company referred me to ended up having to order a new factory bumper and replace it.
Like most freeway drivers, I’m sure she wasn’t following the 1 car length of following distance for every 10 MPH.
No time or space to react.
That’s awful. The police probably had to call for someone with a steel cutting saw before she could be moved.
From what I can discern, the metal shaft went in cleanly, meaning no blood on the entry wound from that side.
I’ve heard that there are times when being in shock means you don’t get the full impact of the pain. Hopefully, she had that going for her.
I speed by those truck as fast as I can and get the hell away from them. They are a menace.
Stuff that falls off of trucks is subject to that whole mass x speed physics formula. Very dangerous. Something came off a trailer and totaled our van.
As I tell my daughters.... Drink more water, you’ll be fine.
I was behind a pickup once and it was carrying a container strapped to a pallet in the back. He hit a typical I-78 bump and the thing flew out and landed in the road in front of me. I was far enough back that I could have avoided it, but I didn’t need to. It skittered across three lanes and landed on the right shoulder. Amazingly, nobody hit it.
The guy in the pickup kept going. I eventually saw him driving backwards on the shoulder wondering what happened to his load.
I watched an eight wheel truck dolly bounce across my lane. Closing speed was way over a hundred mph.
Driving on I-10 in downtown El Paso, I noticed some motion in the sky. It was a tire. It was very high. I could see it coming down hitting the pavement and bouncing again this time towards me, it was to late to do anything, fortunately it barely missed and careened into a culvert. Wow, hope it didn’t have the rim in it.
That came to an end when I found out all those rubber tire remnants you would see along the highways were from the blown tires on those rigs. The vast majority of them use retreads which are nothing more than cheap tires than can come unglued any time.........
Nope, I stay my distance from the big rigs these days.......
That’ll buff out.
This happened a while back north of there
(PHOTOS) Logging Truck Flips on Overpass Near Redding, Sends Logs Toppling Onto Freeway Traffic Below
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2019/jun/18/photos-logging-truck-flips-overpass-near-redding-s/
Awful freak accident. Hope she makes it ok. Better leg than chest I suppose.
She was a leaf on the wind... /”Serenity”