SCARY! Driver tapes 2 x 4 coming through windshield

[RamboLiberal]

Wow - this one will make you jump. One of driver's worst nightmares!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOhgMAOrp0c&feature=player_embedded

On edit slow-motion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cZWuZoPuk&feature=related

A woman annoyed with a pair of trucks holding up traffic on a North Carolina highway decided to make a video of their game of "cat and mouse" so she could send it to their respective companies.

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Cobb gave this account to Jalopnik:

"I was actually taping two trucks doing a little 'cat and mouse' game and holding up traffic. (I always say I'll send it to the companies they work for, let them know how they are representing the company, but I never do. Can't help it - I'm in marketing so I always think about things like that)

"The 2×4 was in the road, along with several others, but when the truck in front of me hit it, and then his trailer hit it, it just propelled it into me. I don't know why I didn't scream or cuss or cry, I guess just pure shock, I could barely form words to call 911. But I most definitely know how lucky I was. Damage was mostly the hood and windshield, again, very lucky."



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=86398#ixzz1Igy3KQVj

[cloudbase]

1. That'll break up your day. n/t

[babylonsister]

2. There are a lot of timber/logging trucks near here. I think about

this possibility daily. :scared:

[underpants]

3. The truck and trailer must have squeezed that out of the left side tire

like stepping on a rake (with nothing to keep it secured to the ground) or like you would go the pencil flip that Johnny Carson used to do

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. Following too close.

[fishwax]

5. also, operating a video camera/video phone while driving in traffic is ill-advised

I'm glad that she was okay. And it's a pretty amazing video. But, yeah, a bit too close there ...

[FreeState]

8. Supposedly she was recording the two to send to their companies as a complaint- they were racing n/

[Snoutport]

6. holy sh*t!! That was scary!!!!

[Initech]

7. That would be fucking terrifying.

[Marblehead]

9. Scared the shit out of me

and I was just watching the video

[BanzaiBonnie]

10. Oh Crap!