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

An ax flew into a car's windshield on the highway and miraculously no one was hurt
(Image credit: Facebook.com/MassStatePolice)

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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Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’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.