Driver injured when truck’s ice crashes through windshield

That's part of the excitement of winter driving. If anyone wants to be 100% risk free, stay home.

I think it's beautiful seeing a sheet of ice catch air for a good sail and come crashing down. Almost as much fun as driving behind a pickup when their plastic bedliner decides to take to the skies and sails over top of your head.

 

That's a bad day.

When we had some ice storms in Charleston a couple years ago, huge icicles were falling off the bridge cables and a few went straight through some windshields.

 

Take it to an airport or something.

I don't see these ones using de-icer.


Could toss some salt on there.

Or find a low bridge.

Make that a relatively low one.
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Driving in wintery conditions you're going to accumulate snow and ice on top of the trailer and yes it's the law to keep vehicles free of it.but I will not clean the top of trailer.a chunk of ice hitting another vehicle is remote but it does happen.a piece of ice hit a bronco outside of the twin cities on 35.we pulled into a rest area I called my company and their insurance paid for a new windshield.people should stay far back but who thinks they re going to be the one that gets hit.

 

Yes. I rarely moved something in the Winter that I could manage to clear the snow off of. It'd be nice if more travel centers offered those drive-through roof wedges to clear the build-up off your trailer.



Travel plazas could get some significant revenue from charging even $2.00 to use it, or offer it for free with a fuel purchase. I could see selling this a lot more likely than Tire Pass.

 

I just have to wonder how these systems handle the snow once they have it off the tops of the trucks. They must have some means of getting rid of it, or it will build up to the point that the whole system doesn't work.

 

The article simply says "truck." Could it have been a pick-up? A bread van? A semi?

 

Might catch some good air though.

 

I was at a shipper in Washington state, they wouldnt let a loaded trailer out the the gate until the roof was clean. Last i heatd was a clean up was sent out to the shipper by the driver's company. I left, don't know the results. as we all lnow following distance is always impprtant.

 

Even if you follow a truck a good distance behind it, it can be dangerous. Once on the west side of Little Rock I was following a truck in my SUV going east at a great distance from him. A recap on the trailer threw the cap off and it come flying up high in the air back at me, and thankfully it hit on the left side of my SUV about 1 and 1/2 half foot from my front left wheel. That was in about 92.

Nowadays hardly anyone follows a truck at a great distance, usually their close as they can get to the truck and trailer and it will hit them before it gets way up in the air as that recap flying off of the trailer I was following at a great distance.

Most of the 4 wheelers anything flying up behind a truck, they think it’s the truck drivers fault even if it did not come off their truck.