Volleyball-sized rock smashes through windshield on highway leaving BC driver in critical condition

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The BC Highway Patrol says an object that smashed through a driver’s window on Highway 1 on Thursday, leaving them in critical condition, is believed to be a large rock the size of a volleyball.

Police said it appears the rock came off another vehicle and was not dropped from an overpass

As Global’s Aaron McArthur reports, we’re also hearing from another driver who says she narrowly escaped injury on the same stretch of road last month.

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20 COMMENTS

  1. If it came from a passing truck ? then that truck driver should really be investigated.

    Regular vehicle inspection is part of the routine for the trucking business. How do you not notice a "volleyball sized" rock on your vehicle?

  2. I doubt rock would hit this car.if it was rock then front windshield whould have totally destroyed but it seems like front windshield still intact to the car.

  3. How did they find a person to interview who had a similar incident happen? Did they put out a call for people who may have had a comparable situation? Did Sadie call Global News to tell her story about what happened to her? Did they comb through police reports to find someone to interview?

  4. A rock the size of a volleyball weighs a considerable amount, if another vehicle hit it to make it fly off the overpass would of course sustained major damage if not crashed. Good luck there, so the only answer is person involved.

  5. Sounds like copycat of the "Three Colorado teens deadly rock throwing".

    They threw large rocks from their vehicle at vehicles going in the opposite direction.

  6. Those tandem dump trucks are often the source of rocks, gravel and construction debris. Rocks and pebbles picked up at construction sites get lodge between the wheels and get flung out when the truck is at speed along with loose load material from the dump bed.

  7. That doesnt look like the rock went through the windshield. Theres no hole. It does, though, look like the car sustained damage on the front passenger side most likely with a collision with something or another vehicle. Was the person injured by a subsequent collision from the rock's surprise impact and not the rock itself? Why am I reporting this better than the news?

  8. The rock could of been on the road already, a vehicle could of hit it from the other side, sending it over. I wonder if the victim had a passenger or were they driving alone in the hov lane?

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