Truck versus Duster, and truck won.
Hi All: I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of stuff falling off trucks and damaging my cars. It's happened to my 69 Charger ($800.00 worth of damage) and now it just happened to my 1974 Duster. I was recently driving on a two lane state highway. A tanker truck was approaching me from the opposite direction. As he passed, I observed a piece of metal pipe come off the back of his truck, take one bounce off the pavement and then hit the left side of my hood. Had it struck six inches higher, the pipe would have come through the windshield on the driver's side. This will cost over a thousand dollars to repair. When are these people going to start securing the stuff on their rigs? That pipe hit my car at a closure rate of well over 100 mph. I hate to think what would have happened had it come through my windshield. As it was, the driver sped off and I never saw him again, of course. What's your story of being hit by objects from other vehicles?
Hi All: I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of stuff falling off trucks and damaging my cars. It's happened to my 69 Charger ($800.00 worth of damage) and now it just happened to my 1974 Duster. I was recently driving on a two lane state highway. A tanker truck was approaching me from the opposite direction. As he passed, I observed a piece of metal pipe come off the back of his truck, take one bounce off the pavement and then hit the left side of my hood. Had it struck six inches higher, the pipe would have come through the windshield on the driver's side. This will cost over a thousand dollars to repair. When are these people going to start securing the stuff on their rigs? That pipe hit my car at a closure rate of well over 100 mph. I hate to think what would have happened had it come through my windshield. As it was, the driver sped off and I never saw him again, of course. What's your story of being hit by objects from other vehicles?
