TORONTO, July 8 (UPI) -- A license plate-sized piece of metal slashed through a windshield and killed a man driving west of Toronto, police said.
The unidentified 54-year-old man was killed Tuesday afternoon as he drove east on Queen Elizabeth Way in an Oldsmobile Alero, the Toronto Sun reported.
Witnesses called police when they saw the man's car suddenly slow and drift into the left-hand shoulder and stop, its windshield shattered, the report said. Investigators discounted the possibility of the metal being dropped from a bridge, Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Dave Woodford said.
"We don't know where it came from," Woodford told reporters. "It could have come off a metal truck. It could have come off of the ground and someone hit it up and shot it up."
The newspaper said police were contacting scrap metal and trucking companies to identify the source of the debris.
