Posted on 05/12/2016 8:26:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
BRISTOL TWP., Pa. -- Police in Pennsylvania are looking for the person who sent one trucker to the hospital and put several others in danger.
They say the suspect was throwing bricks off an overpass into traffic on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, hitting three trucks Thursday night.
Action News met up with truck driver Randy Blake on his way back home to West Virginia. He was still in shock after a harrowing night.
Randy tells us, "That somebody could be that stupid to do something that heinous just for the kicks of it."
Randy was driving eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bristol Township around 6 p.m. when out of nowhere a brick came crashing through his windshield as he drove under Bristol Oxford Valley Road.
"Hit me in the head," Randy said. "I maintained control of the vehicle. Got off the exit. Actually drove all the way down and around to the Wawa."
Another driver called 911 when he saw Randy's face covered in blood. He ended up with 15 stitches, a broken eye socket and a fractured jaw. Randy's wife, Alicia, drove six hours to the hospital when she got the call.
Alicia Blake says she, "Immediately dropped everything. I've never driven up here before. It was 8:30 at night. I was scared to death."
State police say two other truck drivers had their windshields smashed by rocks and bricks around the same time. Those drivers were not hurt. To make matters worse - Randy says he was hauling flammable material.
Randy explains, "I could've lost my eye, I could've wrecked and not only killed me but killed hundreds of other people on the interstate."
He says while he won't stop driving - he's still hoping for an arrest.
"This is how we feed our families. And they're out there almost taking it away from us," he said.
Randy Blake will have to come back to Temple University Hospital in another week or two for surgery to repair his eye socket.
If you have any idea who's responsible, State Police would like to hear from you.
An utter disregard for human life and wellbeing. Disgusting!
Should be attempted murder charges.
The thrower failed in his mission to kill someone.
Kill the sick bastard, save someone else in this scumbag’s future.
Nothing less.
Ain't Hope and Change and getting back at Whitey fun?
My parents had someone drop a brick from an interstate overpass one night. Hit the top of the car on the driver’s side just above the windshield.
Thankfully no one was hurt. No one was ever caught.
The ancient Persians kicked it up an octave with scaphism.
A waste of two good canoes, though, IMO.
Fortunate they missed the windshield. Thoughtless, irresponsible, uncaring thrill seekers.
Should be attempted murder charges.
Agree 100%.
Some punk who likely lives off the working man, tries to fatally injure the working man.
I say throw a brick at him.
Fortunate they missed the windshield. Thoughtless, irresponsible, uncaring thrill seekers.
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There were a few other cars along interstate 10 in Alabama that had the same thing happen to them. I don’t believe they ever caught them.
we had that in soCal about 25 years ago. Large stones dropped off the overpass. Two deaths IIRC.
Better - under the truck.
I believe it happens a lot more than people realize. And it’s not just blacks. There are a lot of idiot whites too.
I searched for “bricks rocks overpass” and there were several stories.
Throw him under the truck.
we had that in soCal about 25 years ago. Large stones dropped off the overpass. Two deaths IIRC.
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Lots of stories of it happening. I did a search and there were several stories from around the nation where it has happened.
...unless this is another incident in the same location,this news is about 4 days old...
Think two of the drivers are black
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