Woman dies after car windshield hit by “volleyball-sized” rock on BC highway

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we’ve learned the driver killed in this horrific crash was a 34-year-old woman we’ve confirmed she worked at a downtown Vancouver restaurant I spoke to the manager who says the team is devastated and they’re asking for privacy as they process this news the incident happened last Thursday just after 11:00 a.m. the driver was heading west on Highway 1 near the Willington exit in bernabe when a rock the size of a volleyball smashed through the sedan’s front window Shield hitting her and leaving her in critical condition BC highway patrol says she succumbed to her injuries on Monday police say they are still working to determine where the rock came from we can’t just assume it’s a commercial vehicle I know people are quick to go that way it does seem to be going that way but it was between overpasses so don’t believe it was related to an overpass but you know sometimes a large a large Rock would have something to do with a commercial vehicle but also we we don’t actually know that yet here’s the plastic that goes inside the windshield and basically that’s about the sides of the rock back in the fall of 2012 a semi Tru was involved in a similar incident it happened along Highway 93 in the East couy a boulder about 30 cm large was wedged in the dual wheels of the passing truck and crashed through the family’s vehicle killing the passenger a 37-year-old mother of two drive over a rock it’ll get stuck in between your tires and your du and as you pick up speed it will just shoot out it’s like a cannon in 2001 a long Marine Drive in Vancouver tires of a dump truck kicked up this large Rock killing another woman as for this latest incident BC highway patrol is saying this is a busy stretch of highway and they’re asking anyone who was in the area at the time even if you don’t believe what you have is significant but you do have dash cam video to please contact them Angela Jung Global News

A 34-year-old woman whose car was hit by a volleyball-sized rock as she drove on Highway 1 through Burnaby, B.C. last week has died.

While police do not believe the rock was dropped from an overpass, they still haven’t determined exactly where it came from.

Angela Jung has the latest on the investigation, and details about the driver.

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  1. Last time a large generator, size of an air conditioner, dropped from the truck before me and came flying towards my windshield. Luckily i swerved and there was no car next to me otherwise I would have died. The truck in front kept going and was clueless what happened.

  2. Reduce the commercial vehicle's speed and police keep their ? eyes on the roads safety.
    Stop ? your police car immediately and remove the ??? dangerous materials from the roads, than drive-by.

  3. I was driving to on Seattle on i5 from vancouver one night and i noticed all these sparks ahead of me near the pavement it was a hitch ball and coupler dancing at 70 miles per hour right in front of me, must have come off of someone's truck ahead of me. Lucky for me it went right underneath my vehicle at 70 mph and didn't hit me or my vehicle. Sometimes luck is on our side.

  4. BC truckers are the worst in the country. They can’t strap a load if their lives depended on it. They weave in and out of the fast to slow lane like they were driving sports cars, speed, love to corner at speed then tip and loose their loads, often drive with missing lights, park brakes smoking away, loads on fire while driving, regularly drive into things such as bridges and tunnels. And BC Transport police are nowhere to be found. It’s just another day in lawless BC.

  5. Unfortunately this has become too common in Edmonton, especially on the Whitemud pedestrian overpasses and as recent as just two months ago. A couple of years back the same size rock was thrown off and went through the windshield of a school bus killing the driver.

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