An ax flew into a car's windshield on the highway and miraculously no one was hurt

An ax flew into a car&#039;s windshield on the highway and miraculously no one was hurt

(Image credit: Facebook.com/MassStatePolice)

last updated 8 January 2015

I get really nervous driving behind trucks carrying cargo. What if that 8-foot wide pipe comes loose? Is that double-wide trailer really secure? Is that ax even tied down?

Horrifyingly, that ax was not tied down, as one driver discovered Wednesday morning while driving behind a landscape truck on a Massachusetts highway. An unsecured ax went flying from the truck's load, crashing through the trailing car's passenger-side windshield.

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Two important lessons here: 1.) Contractors and all other motorists are reminded to properly secure items they are transporting, including tools, building materials, bicycles, canoes, luggage, furniture, beach chairs, and the like. 2.) The man whose car was struck was obeying the speed limit, driving about 65 mph. If he had been speeding, the increased velocity of his car would have increased the power of the ax's impact, meaning it could very well have gone through the glass and injured his passenger. [Facebook.com/MassStatePolice]

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Lauren Hansen produces The Weekâ€™s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.

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