A Utah family’s dashcam captured the moment the base of an office chair was sent careening into their windshield. KSL’s Shelby Lofton reports.
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That was straight from the Alabama docks…
Partner
Extension ladders, for that matter any kind of ladder- people attach ladders to the racks on their truck with bungee cords. The rubber gets brittle especially in cold weather and the ladders come flying off trucks. There should be a law that says ladders must be held on trucks with ratchet straps.
Maybe under the bridge and throw power alike quarterback chair fly not see vehicle out of the truck
I doubt that more than a dozen tickets are written annually all over the US for unsecured load.
Glad it hit a car and not a motorcyclist.
We should add more lanes and go all in on car-dependency. Build our cities where the only form of transportation is the car and our safety is dependent on other drivers as much as our own. Lower driving age while we're at it. Only 40K plus Americans die each year from car-related incidents.
So scary! Glad they’re okay and that today’s windshields are so well engineered.
This happened to me several years ago when someone didn't have a mattress properly secured to the top of their vehicle. It flew off the top of a van two cars ahead and landed right in front of me on a busy highway. I had no way of avoiding it so I just had to drive over it. It happened really fast and was a very scary moment for sure. The state police took a report but never found the driver of the van.
This incident could have been prevented had the driver been driving in a "Serpentine Fashion." Remember, weaving around in traffic could save the lives of you and your family!
Maybe people in the future are experimenting with Time Travel and odd things are happening to people right now because of it.
It's almost like the thing came out of nowhere.
Thank windshield for the protection
This happens a lot. No one is really securing trailer or truck loads anymore. Lazy.
Lili can get it
idk why I thought that was a airplane by the thumbnail
I'M GLAD THEY'RE OKAY AND DIDN'T HIT A MOTORCYCLE DRIVER
Once I had to dodge a wheelbarrow falling off a landscaper truck, while on my motorcycle, in a tunnel! That was a heart flutter situation. I felt I had it handled though, on a motorcycle you ALWAYS are paying 100% attention unlike the car people.
car windshield should be able to absorb objects that are not large at impact point which happened in this case. a brick on the other hand is larger at impact point so need to pay attention to cars ahead of you and what they are hauling.
I'm so sick of this "partner" crap… Just say husband
Windshields are specially made so that they don't break.
The other day I was driving and got to a bottleneck only to see a full sized, maybe 8ft aluminum folding ladder in the highway. Not only that but it had actually landed in open, standing position. Somebody was in the middle of collecting it, perhaps the original owner, a Good Samaritan or junk collector
The real lesson here is that contractors and haulers need to do better jobs securing their loads and we fellow drivers need to keep an eye out for insecure cargo in other drivers autos. I’m not big on snitching but this is an instant where I’d make the exception
The insurance company will come out with some excuse that unfortunately they regret to infirm that the insurance does not cover flying chairs, it's in the fine prints! And your premium will go up since its considered a motor vehicle accident
amazing flight path….
I was driving in the fast lane through downtown Los Angeles, thinking about socks or whatever, when a sheet of plywood sailed over the divider. It took me a moment to realize it was actually happening and then I had no time to react. The plywood was flying parallel to the ground and looked like it would sail right in my windshield. I'm not sure what happened next – maybe i closed my eyes – but the leading edge of the plywood sheet must have dipped before impact. The front end of my car went up then slammed down, and then everything was normal again, as though nothing had happened at all. Not even a mark on the bumper.
WOW THAT WAS SCARY GLAD NOBODY GOT HURT OR KILLED 🙏
There was no way to dodge the flying object. Who would she blame her mom for possibly been on the phone?
You haven't been scared until your speed boat goes full 90 in the air after you are driving on the emerg chains.
God bless the family.
This is how motorcycle people get taken out. I had a flaming brake pad fly off the back of a big rig in the middle of the night it went past 5 lanes to bounce off my front fender and slider cage I had on previous bike. If it wasn't for my engine cage I would of had a flaming break pad in my right shin.
Someone loaded those chairs upside down, and the wind unscrewed the legs then turned them into a helicopter. Amateurs!
common-sense regulation needed on office chairs
You can't avoid that even if you're watching the road and see it coming at you. It's too fast to react. It may actually be more dangerous to swerve to avoid it at such high speed. Good to know they're not badly hurt.
My car insurance covers windshields etc. Check and see if yours does. I didn't know until someone told me. I'm happy to hear that everyone is alright.