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Wrench flies off semi truck, smashes driver's windshield in Pennsylvania

By Ben Hooper
A wrench flies off the side of a tanker truck and crashes into a car's windshield. Screenshot: KDKA-TV
A wrench flies off the side of a tanker truck and crashes into a car's windshield. Screenshot: KDKA-TV

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Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania man's dashboard camera was recording when a large crescent wrench flew off the side of a semi truck and smashed into his windshield.

Scott Rumbarger, of Slippery Rock, said he was on Interstate 79 Tuesday on his way to Cranberry Township when his dashcam captured the moment the 2-foot-long crescent wrench flew off the side of the truck traveling just in front and to the right of him.

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The wrench smashed into the passenger side of Rumbarger's windshield, sending broken glass raining into the car.

"I see something coming off a truck, just a split second," Rumbarger told KDKA-TV. "I see it flipping through the air, and I think it's maybe nothing. It goes through my windshield. It turns out, it's about a 2-foot crescent wrench."

"There are glass shards all through here, all over the dashboard, even into the backseat," Rumbarger said.

He said the wrench was so heavy that it came to a rest on the hood of his car and was still there when he stopped.

Rumbarger said he was unable to get the semi driver's attention, but he was able to take down the vehicle's license plate information.

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"I'm not sure he even knew it had fallen off his truck," he said.

Rumbarger said watching the dashboard camera footage was nerve-wracking.

He wrote on Facebook that watching it "frame by frame is what got me, very Final Destination."

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