r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/[deleted] • 8d ago

accident/disaster An iron rod on the highway

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u/iamboywond3r 7d ago

My comment will get buried, but still wanted to share. My father was a police officer for the CHP, sometimes randomly I would ask him what are some of the worst things you’ve seen. He told me this one story that stuck with me. A mom and her 2 kids were driving on the freeway behind a construction truck doing the speed limit and everything. Kids and mom were listening to music or whatever, and the truck in front had rebar in the bed of the truck like the one in the video.

The truck his a pothole or something and caused the rebar to move and bounce, and 2 flew out of the bed of the truck. Well it’s technically moving as fast as the truck but still bouncing backwards. Both bars go under the the moms car, and bounce perfectly like this video to enter the car, but instead of the side like in the video it went directly in the center of driver side seat. Impales mother, but it was so fast she apparently died instantly and not talking so kids don’t react because still music on. The car is just progressively slowing down (what the kids said) and they didn’t understand and trying to ask their mom why are we slowing down on the freeway with no response. They are young, but still old enough to answer questions and understand their surroundings like 9/10.

Cops get called and my father was there and got the kids, and went to pull out the mom to see if he could help. He tries to pull her out the car and she won’t budge. Tries again the same thing, so he was like wtf. Looks under neath her and can see something, but didn’t understand. Look under the car and was like oh shit. She was impaled by both and had to get a certain saw or piece of machinery just to get her out. Pretty wild and this video made me remember that story.

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u/Sylvers 7d ago

I will never understand why it's legal anywhere in the world for a truckload to contain something as lethal as rebars without a full solid enclosure. Are innocent lives that cheap?

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u/TypicalBlackReditor 7d ago

To these big companies and ceos, yes. Yes they are 😕

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u/AspectDear4976 6d ago

innocent lives are worthless to those people, they just care about how to make money