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Driver injured when truck’s ice crashes through windshield

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by c64basic, Dec 31, 2015.

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  1. Dec 31, 2015 #1
    c64basic

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    Driver injured when truck’s ice crashes through windshield
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    A man suffered lacerations to his face and eye when a frozen chunk of snow that flew off the roof of a truck came smashing through the windshield of his car, a potentially life-threatening incident that has state police reminding drivers to remove ice from the roofs of their cars before hitting the road.

    “Flying snow can cause injury to drivers behind you, or it can cause a driver behind you to lose control of his car or block his vision, as can blowing snow,” state police spokesman David Procopio told the Herald. “It’s not only the law, it’s also a question of courtesy and respect for others.”
    The injured motorist, whom Procopio did not identify, was driving northbound on Interstate 495 in Andover yesterday when ice from the roof of a nearby truck smashed through his windshield.

    The driver was taken to Lawrence General Hospital for lacerations to his face and eye from the glass, Procopio said, and the truck driver wasn’t located by police.

    Also yesterday, another motorist was issued a warning after frozen debris from the roof of his car cracked the windshield of another vehicle on I-495 in Milford.
     
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  3. Dec 31, 2015 #2
    tinytim

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    I wonder how close he was following the truck. Something that does that to a windshield isn't going to fall like a feather.
     
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  4. Dec 31, 2015 #3
    OldHasBeen

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    Ice could fall off of a truck or car going though the air many feet hitting the windshield of those behind, especially if your going very fast.

    It would be a big job to clean all the ice off of a truck or trailer, or even a car, especially if its frozen to the surfaces.

    I remember the 1st time I drove in snow. It was December 1966, I was coming home from my Air Force Base. The top of my 57 Chevy was covered, the truck, and the wheel wells were nearly full of ice.
     
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    AModelCat

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    No kidding. Unless he was traveling the opposite direction or passing at the time.
     
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  7. Dec 31, 2015 #5
    mountaingote

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    I thought massa-two-shets passed a law a few years back requiring trailers to be cleaned off after snowstorms?
     
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  8. Dec 31, 2015 #6
    finbyrd

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    How do you handle clearing snow off trailers? I've only seen a handful of scrapers in my travels.
     
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  9. Dec 31, 2015 #7
    STexan

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    The snow is not the problem. It's snow that has melted and the melt-water has refrozen underneath to form "sheet ice" stuck to the trailer roof skin. This is not going to be easily removed, no matter. These sheets can travel considerable distances under the right conditions, and cross into opposite lanes, which causes more damage due to more speed favor involved.
     
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  10. Dec 31, 2015 #8
    Big Don

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    So just what is the answer here?
     
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  11. Dec 31, 2015 #9
    Slowpoke KW

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    Wait till it melts
    That's what I do
     
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  12. Dec 31, 2015 #10
    Bob Dobalina

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    One day after picking up a trailer that had been sitting a while, I stopped at a red light and heard a loud bang and it felt like a car had rear-ended me. A half-second later 48 feet of thick ice started crashing down on the top of my cab. It seemed to last forever; it probably took 5 seconds before it ended. I'm glad it happened that way, because it was real a heavy sheet of ice. It wouldn't have been good coming off on the big road.
     
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