I'd have Sh*t myself to....

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srhutch

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 East Sussex, UK
One of the guys at work was travelling on the M25 a few days ago with his wife and daughter in the car and this was thrown over from the other side of the carriage. Not sure if it had just fallen off or something flicked it up, but they were bloody lucky.

I think if the pole wasnt there or had been much shorter it would have gone right through. :cry:

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Looks like it could be from a lorry mud guard. Either way must have been bloody scary and glad they're all ok.
 
Wow, even without it coming through and hitting the occupants, he did well to hold his nerve and avoid swerving across other lanes - could have been a very nasty accident
 
Been in a similar position myself when a bit of pig iron bounced up off the motorway and embedded itself into my front bumper/radiator when driving my E36, and can concur its fucking scary. Though this case does look somewhat more concerning!
 
Gulp!!

Where i used to work a guy heard a big bang and the windscreen shattered. A scaffold knuckle had gone through and then through the head rest and embedded its self in the rear bulk head. If Brian had not have been a smoker looking for his lost lighter he probably wouldn't be hear.
 
Crikey. Similar thing happened to the wife with me as passenger - an articulated two cars in front had a complex shelving arrangement on the back, went over a bump, dislodged a piece of angle iron about 70cm long, which bounced into the next carriageway. The front end of a Mini got the good news, but it pinged back across the carriageway and said a big hello to our drivers door, about 2cm under the window. Made a helluva mess of the door. Dread to think what would've happened had it been 10cm higher up. :poop:
 
Holy sh*t thats got to be pretty scary.

Someone at work once had a ladder come through their windshield.. fell off a van in front and came crashing through... he had to pull into the hard shoulder to compose himself before carrying on.
 
Imagine that 6 inches higher, clearing the top of the windscreen when the roof was down,,,
Could easily have been embedded in someones scull
 
Crikey that must've shook them up, hope they're ok, I had a pheasant cave my windscreen in a few years ago, I saw it fly over the dual carriageway I was on over one lane the other side, hit the curtain of a lorry and bounce back to my side and straight into my windscreen, made a right mess, all in slow motion too !
 
Crikey that could so easily have been game over. You just never know. :o

Had a bull charge an Astra hire car I was driving, many years ago, in the middle of Dartmoor. I had no idea he was coming my way, due to it being pitch black and a pee soup fog. I was doing about 10-15 mph. First thing I knew was a shadow appeared on the wind screen then a split second later the bull's left horn pierced through the screen, on the Passenger side. Passenger door and A pillar bashed in. The only mark on the front was a small dent, I figured was caused by his tail whipping on to the bonnet. So guess he was going faster than me. :lol: Not so pants popping, as it was at low speed, but would have fecked a passenger, if one had been aboard. Or me if he'd come from the other side.
 
Full on brown trouser moment, so lucky he didn't swerve as a reaction too.

I missed my strangest moment in my early 20s driving along the M1 early in the morning, slightly tired & thought 'that can't be a wooden chair in my lane'. It was! Relatively empty motorway so able to swerve, followed by another chair and then a table. Remember thinking back it was similar to the Volvo storm chaser advert swerving about the debris.

Found the cause, large transit with its roller door open on the hard shoulder. Driver must have forgotten to close it & was then loosing its cargo as it drove...certainly woke me up!

Scariest moment in a car for me was on the same route a few weeks later with my boss driving. Looked across to notice the lull in conversation was due to him having fallen asleep at the wheel. Holding the wheel & waking him gently so as not to frighten him was an arse clenching moment. Imagine being woken up by someone to find you were piloting a car in the outside lane!
 
I think it literally came out of nowhere and so didn't even have time to react. Probably just as well as said.
 
s**t me! That i has got to be intervention from a higher power at work! Could have been so much worse!
Kudos on managing to keep his cool and park it!!
 
Yep, scary. Good thing he did not see it coming as that would be even scarier to some extend.
 
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