Woman Inches from Being Impaled When Metal Pole Flies Through Windshield on Highway

Drivers face many potential hazards when hitting the road. No matter how experienced the driver or how reliable the car, there’s always the chance that someone else might make a life-altering decision for them.

That’s why police are now on the lookout for a white pickup truck that was hauling a trailer with an unsecured load Thursday in Phoenix.

Mandy Poff was driving alone in her Nissan SUV, traveling what she said was a safe distance behind the truck, when the truck hit a bump in the road and a 4-foot-long piece of metal fell off the back and immediately became a deadly projectile.

“It kind of bounced on the road and then flipped up and then just went straight through my windshield right by my face,” Poff told KSAZ-TV. “And then kind of went up and cut the front or the top of my car and lodged itself in my back seat.

“It was flying literally, like, in the air, you know, like a missile.”

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The pole punched through the SUV’s glass window, went right past Poff, hit the back seat and embedded itself in the car’s roof. Miraculously, no one was in the back seat and Poff was uninjured.

A responding police officer was shocked to find the pole had missed the driver