A driver had a close call when a pipe flew off a company’s truck and hit his car on the highway.
As News Center 7′s Brandon Lewis reported on News Center 7 at 11:00 a college student was heading to Sinclar on I-75 when things took a scary turn.
Now Brendan Ludwig’s Honda CRV sits outside his family’s home in West Chester.
“It’s just parked out front and I’m borrowing rides when and where I can,” he said.
For now, he doesn’t know when he’s going to drive it again.
“The recycling truck in front of me, when they hit a bump in the road, they had a lead pipe about a foot and a half long, it came flying out of their car, launched up about 15, 20 feet in the air and it smashed right into the windshield of my car,” Ludwig said.
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A Dayton Police Report of the crash said:
“A Franklin Iron and Metal semi-truck had an unknown unsecured metal object fall out the back of its truck bed and hit a car. The metal object punctured the windshield and left the car with damage to both the windshield and top.”