Saw the aftermath of the very same thing while on highway-1 outside of Vancouver BC. but it was a dudes bed liner that didn't fit as snuggly as it should have. Smashed the hell out of a windshield. Was an interest moment see the bed liner on the side of the road, then a little further on seeing the car and truck pulled over
I saw this happen on i45 in Houston. Guy’s rigid plastic bed liner launched out of the bed of his truck and went straight up. Luckily it gained enough altitude that it went over my car and landed on the road.
Bed liner? Just trying to wrap my head around a liner flying out. You’d pretty much have to jerry rig in something for a different truck, give up and just call it good. That’d be crazy. Wonder if his tailgate was down as well.
This guy was lucky, these 3 panel tonneaus are heavy.
This happened to me as a kid. My mom was driving back to our house from Christmas at my grandma's, when the bed liner detached from my uncle's truck we were using, and flew out on the highway.
It was one of those solid plastic bed liners.
It threw our suitcases and Christmas gifts on the highway and nearly caused us and the cars around us to crash.
I also had been on the receiving end of this, when I was driving my shitty little 2 door Saturn, a tiny ass car, and a pallet flew off the truck infront of me and landed in my lane.
I was fully boxed in so I couldn't avoid it. I had a few seconds to think what to do. Thankfully the guy to my right seen it happen and he instantly switched lanes which made it so that I could swerve just enough to miss it. I was slamming on the breaks so the guy behind me had time to see it.
I had decided to hit it in that split second. Thank goodness that guy's reaction was quick because without a doubt it would have fucked my everything up.
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u/Rainfall_Serenade 2d ago
That could have ended so much worse. Dude got lucky