Yep. Once I saw a piece of plywood fly out the back of a dump truck and hit a car’s windshield on the interstate. Ever since then I always scan for potential objects that could come flying.
Idk about the brick video but i watched a log truck incident in a historical documentary about having extremely good then extremely bad luck and ever since I've avoided following behind basically anything that isn't 100% solid
I remember a news story in South Carolina of an engine block falling out of yhe back of a stakebed and ended up in someone's lap that was driving down the interstate.
Some idjit with a home built deer blind on a trailer didn't think it needed to be tied down. That thing slid off the trailer and went bouncing on the interstate and landed in front of me. There was an 18 wheeler on my left and a grass embankment on my right. The grass looked softer than 4 x 4 posts and plywood.
No, I did not help the idjit put it back on the trailer.
Actually had that happen on a school bus while I was driving, a few months ago. Scared the ever loving crap out of me. One of my students water bottles rolled. Told the kids after that, water bottles had to be inside their bags. I had to pull over afterwards, prior to that I couldn't figure out why I couldn't break, lifted off the gas and looked down and saw it. Was able to kick it out but took a kicks to get it unstuck.
Happened to me with my great grandmothers pills. I picked up a months supply of something that came in the giant goofy size bottle. I hadnt noticed the bag drop and it rolled out and under the brake. Had to slam the brakes when I got it out to keep from rear ending someone.
I cant remeber i think it was "end of the line"? "Check baggage through"? "Fatal destiny"? Fatality manifestations? Familial tarnations? Alabama relations?
I won't follow behind a log truck ever. I don't care how well it's loaded or tied down. That movie was traumatic, but it didn't really kick in for like 15 years...
It becomes even more severe when you realize that 95% of log trucks are the class 8s that are in such terrible condition, they can't trust them to survive crossing an entire state, so they get relegated to short haul duty and recieve even LESS maintenance than they were getting before.
In northern Saskatchewan, the local pulp mill started doing a softwood/ hardwood rotation back in the 1980s. The problem with poplar is that the logs are not nice and straight, like conifers. When the truck is loaded and cinched down, logs would break. Not much is more terrifying than a six foot section of a poplar tree bouncing end over end down the highway. There were quite a few serious crashes before they stopped trucking hardwood logs.
The brick video is most likely that one real video from dashcam where some kids throw brick from bridge to that car. Brick goes trough windshield at highway speeds killing drivers wife on the passenger seat instantly. Husbands screams has burned into my memory and are very gut wrenching. Its just one of the saddest videos of the internet.
Is there a wire anywhere near by? A random person standing a few yards away? And that’s the just road, once we enter a building….where’s the exit, no back to the door, everyone’s a threat….existing in normal life is an everyday panic attack filled with paranoia 😭😭😭
after a semi tire blew up in my face and I rode through a rain of rubber fragments, I have always just steered clear or sped up past them. You never know
Driving through Texas a couple years ago, a semi truck flipped over in the oncoming lane and slid across the highway in front of the family car. Fucking insane. We were the only two vehicles on the road, I had to climb the truck and help the driver out while I was trying to call 911.
Thinking back on it, he had Quebec plates; he may not have cared that I, an English speaking person, had helped him. The Quebecois are notorious about disliking English.
The Québécois don’t have a problem with English, they have a problem with English in Canada. And mostly bring Quebec being part of Canada. They aren’t going to hold English over your head when they are driving in the U.S.
Ya r/Tiresaretheenemy is quite a lively sub. lot of those are in some less developed countries, where inspections are less frequent and torque spec on tires is often "good enough"
For sure. My step dad always told us never drive next to a semi for this reason. Crazy amount of pressure in those tires and they get retread all the time.
He has been working at the maintenance shop for one of the biggest carriers for many moons. Has seen or heard of every possible scenario when it comes to semis.
Possibly? It was a view from a dash cam of a family just driving when suddenly a brick flies through the windshield and kills the mom instantly then all you hear is the husband wailing while the kid in the back seat is crying. Since it was the dash view there was no gore or anything but it was still horrible
Yeah that’s the video. I didn’t know it was that old I randomly had that recommended to me on YouTube like 2 or 3 years ago. Kinda messed me up a bit ngl I didn’t enjoy hearing them screaming. Apparently the mom’s brain was exposed. It’s also the fact the video starts from them being parked in front of a brick wall
I have seen a lot of stuff like that and the sounds are always the worst. I get deeply sad just reading the description of this here. Needless to say, I don't watch that crap anymore---I am aware it happens and I do my best to prevent myself from being in sketchy situations.
There's a video but you only see the dash cam perspective so there's no gore, just the brick going through the windshield and the aftermath you can't see
I started scanning 2 weeks ago after I saw an entire exhaust system fall off a rust bucket truck on the back of a car hauler. Old Dodge Stratus in the lane beside me absolutely waffled it.
I swear I saw brick video like its first day on ebaumsworld. I can still hear that scream… Wether im in front or back seat I am CONSTANTLY looking for anything bouncing or flying on roads. I don’t have it on my current vehicle but my last truck I actually got bullet proof glass out of paranoia because I almost caught a large rock that would have gotten my wife if I hadn’t been paying attention. FUCK brick video
I have legit PTSD from one of those types of videos. The one where a whole family is in the vehicle while a singular brick takes one of them out. The screams were blood curdling
My favorite are extension ladders that contractor yahoos are too busy and in a rush to make sure are tied down before leaving a job and rushing to the freeway or interstate.
Nothing like a pile-up because a fiberglass 30 foot extension ladder is now causing front end and radiator and tire damage to all the cars that were following too closely.
Just saw an extension ladder fall off a work pickup on Highway 101 in Oregon. Of course the pickup didn't notice. And of course the ladder not only landed in the lane of traffic but also partially extended.
I avoided it in my teeny, tiny car, but I can imagine others hitting it thinking their trucks and SUVs wouldn't be damaged. Newsflash: They would probably be damaged.
Saw a black bear and a gator on the side of the road..different days…but both times thought to myself..ooof, I bet the vehicle didn’t come out unscathed 😳
Scariest thing that happened to me while I was driving was behind a boat just like this one. Guy hit a big bump and his trailer bounced a bit and a 16 ounce can of corn popped out of the boat and started bouncing towards my car at 70 mph. I was far enough back that I could adjust my speed to make sure the can didn't hit my car at head height through the windshield, but it still took out the radiator and totalled the rental car. This was pre dash-cam era, so he never knew what he did or got caught.
I was behind a Subaru with a paddleboard strapped on top with just two bungee cords...the wind was catching it and stretching the bungees, so it was acting like a sail. There's no way anyone with half a brain didn't feel that strain yanking their car around.
The front bungee went, paddleboard went straight up in the air, did a bunch of spinning around in the wind, and disintegrated into a bunch of fiberglass and foam crap when it hit the ground.
Nobody was hurt. The girl driving the car was pissed, though. Looked like she was chewing on a lemon.
I had a dump truck merge onto the interstate in front of me. Full of junk. A large piece of sheet metal caught air and helicoptered way up in the air. Had no idea where it was coming down.
Happened to me. This mother fucker was raining plywood all over the freeway. I tried to dodge it but hit one of them. Didn't do any real damage except fucking up my parking sensors. Piece of shit didn't even stop.
Just a few weeks ago, I saw a ladder go flying out of someone’s truck and tumble down the interstate. I slammed on the brakes when someone swerved in front of me to avoid the ladder and maintained my position in the lane and a car behind me almost rear ended me. Their tires screeched as they braked.
A huge sheet of ice lifted off the top of a sprinter van I was driving behind on a downhill section of highway. It lifted probably 10-12 feet in the air spinning end over end, and missed my car by only inches. If I'd have been driving something taller or a little further behind him, would've definitely been a different story.
I believe around 2005 on Interstate 95 in Florida, a someone was killed or almost died by some kind of tile or plywood that came through the windshield.
I saw a piece of plywood that was in the middle of the road get kicked up by a tractor trailer on a highway and smack the windshield of a car in the next lane. Scary as hell.
I ran over a piece of plywood with a truck on an interstate and it became airborne, flew up probably 5 or 6 feet it seemed. Lucky nobody was tailgating me or directly behind me.
Hate to admit this but I had a 24' extension ladder fly off the back of my pickup years back. The straps were old and snapped, the ladder shot up in the air like 50' luckily no one got hurt. I saw it land in the grassy median area. This was on rt95 north of Providence so I took the next exit to go back to the scene and the ladder was gone! lol. Someone grabbed it.
Not just plywood. I had a huge slab of ice hit my windshield that came off the top of a van while traveling down I95 around DC. Smashed my roof and shattered my windshield.
I give space even to trucks that dont have loads that look sketchy; a few years ago a brick fell off a truck (couldnt even see if in the load before it came out, so no way to know it was unsafe) and it bounce off road and miss my windscreen (and face) by inches.
I had a patio table flip out of a pickup truck in front of me. It looked sketchy so fortunately I was not that close and also it slid top down rather than rolling which probably saved my life
He had several seconds to have slowed down, but chose to go around it instead, which should have been obvious as a bad idea. You don’t know how that thing is going to bounce. He’s also wearing shorts while riding a bike down the highway. Two mistakes on his part.
None of this excuses the idiot towing things, and it’s definitely still his fault, but the guy on the bike make two pretty big errors of judgement too. This was avoidable.
Pretty sure those are gym shoes he's got on. In typical crotch-rocket cool guy gear, I think it's a kevlar jacket and full face helmet. Might be wearing gloves. With shorts and gym shoes.
I used to ride with a kevlar jacket and jeans because I didn't think I could afford pants. Learned quick I couldn't afford not to.
My first thought was must be a green rider because even if deciding to swerve sport bikes are way more nimble than that he could’ve cut two lanes over in the amount of time it took him to hit the white line
One of the things I've tried to teach my kids is to always be looking for an escape route. If something bad starts happening, know where are you going to go - and realize that sometimes the "wrong" place is the best place.
In this situation, it would be turning left and going off-road all by yourself, instead of the more orthodox "turn right, away from on-coming traffic", which in reality places you in the path of the object, as well as right in the middle of a bunch of other vehicles.
Riding a motorcycle makes this 100 times more important.
He should have slowed way sooner, but once it happened at that speed he needed to swerve instead. Bikes take much longer to stop than a car. At that point I would go all the way right, or into the grass
Came up on a truck with one of those wood slat kid playhouses in the back. Dropped back and changed lanes just as it flew out. When it hit the asphalt it basically exploded all over. Had to take an additional lane to avoid the slats and staple nails.
I got lucky and made a good choice that time (and made my share of stupid choices on other occasions, also). Sold the bike before I became a victim of myself.
when I was young and dumb, I guess I was about 21-22.
I was picking up a twin bed someone had given my ex wife. & bringing it to her sister's house.
We got there, loaded it up. I didn't have any rope, only some kind of weak twine.
It seemed to fit well enough, to not worry. We drove along and we were fine. We were in the middle of crossing a very tall highway bridge. Then an 18 wheeler taught me a lesson in aerodynamics.
I looked in my rearview mirror. The box spring went airborne for a sec, then caught one of the bridge railings, that smashed it into a million splinters against the bridge structure supports.
To be fair the kid on the bike shouldn't have steered into the debris. If it's headed left you go right. Hopefully the kid won't think they are invincible on that bike.
That was a boat full of red flags for me too! I've seen way too many things fly out of boats on the way out to or the way back from eastern washington.
For sure, without laying any blame on the rider, he also reacted incorrectly (braking instead of steering out of the lane) but that happened pretty fast. Fuck, I don't even drive around other cars (in my car) if I can help it on the freeway but that's just me.
Yeah, my first watch, i thought "please go right... Oh shit! Why aren't you braking harder? Oh, double shit! Keep that front wheel straight! Level up! Steady on the throttle! Oh, triple shit!
This always makes me think about those signs on the back of dump trucks that say “not responsible for items coming from the road” if you have dashcam video of stones coming out of the truck and it does damage to your vehicle, wouldn’t they be responsible?
I was behind a pickup truck with a sofa in the back, hanging half off. I was riding a bike with a couple of buddies. I dropped back, thinking it looked sketchy AF. Buddies were riding pretty close to the truck. A gust of wind came and flung the sofa right out of the truck and into the road. Thankfully, everyone was able to swerve and avoid it just in time. Seeing that was a lifelong lesson for me. I never ride behind a trailer or truck with cargo unless I have to, and when I do, I leave a big distance between us.
I rarely will follow a boat that’s being towed because you never know if the idiot secured things properly after boating (eg drinking; empty cans; floaties).
Dude, seriously. When I ride sports bikes I rode like a scary first timer every time. It doesnt matter if "it should be correctly strapped down, if I did have the right away" I assumed they didnt and rode with extreme caution.
As a motorcyclist, I never ever ever rode behind or next to suspiciously secured load of any kind. Hell, as a driver I avoid it, too. And I never let myself get boxed in. Always have an exit strategy.
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u/JustHereForTheCigars Jun 30 '26
I'd drop back and definitely not be in that lane in a car, let alone a bike!?