Utah driver is hit by horrific Final Destination-style accident while driving down freeway

A Utah driver almost mislaid her life erstwhile a portion of debris from nan roadworthy collapsed done her windshield.

Hope McCurdy was connected her regular commute connected I-15 erstwhile a 9-inch by 2-inch dense portion of metallic came soaring done nan air, crashing done her windshield.

'I didn't spot it from nan beginning,' she told section Fox connection KSL. 'But location was a infinitesimal erstwhile it did travel into my vision.'

Footage from nan driver's dash cam shows nan metallic entity alert disconnected of a motortruck miles up of McCurdy's conveyance and clang straight into her windshield connected nan driver's side.

McCurdy said it each happened successful a divided second, and astatine 1 constituent she thought nan entity had stabbed her. 

'Flew astatine maine for illustration a ninja star. It popped done and deed maine successful nan chest. I thought I had been impaled. I didn't cognize if I was OK for a moment,' she said.

Despite nan gashes connected her look and chest, and shards of solid stinging her eyes, McCurdy managed to propulsion over.

She showed nan road patrol what she now refers to arsenic her 'survival souvenir,' which pierced her windshield and landed successful her lap.

McCurdy said she is fortunate to beryllium alive; had nan entity deed nan car a different way, this would person been a different story. 

'I was fortunate because arsenic it spun done nan air, it deed my windshield flat. If it had travel done for illustration this, I astir apt wouldn't beryllium present today,' she said.

Shaken but wished to forestall akin incidents, McCurdy pleads pinch drivers to unafraid their cargo and double-check their vehicles' undercarriages to forestall specified tragedies from happening to others.

'It's decidedly 1 of nan strangest things that's ever happened to maine and 1 of nan astir miraculous things I've astir apt walked distant from,' McCurdy said. 

Last year, nan Utah Highway Patrol responded to a staggering number of roadworthy hazards – complete 18,000 calls - of which 420 resulted successful crashes,

In a peculiarly different case, a driver reported nan guidelines of an agency chair flying done their windshield.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that unsecured cargo connected rider vehicles is nan origin of astir crashes involving debris successful nan road, taking astir 730 lives annually.