BOXFORD, MASS. (WHDH) - A woman is grateful she wasn’t severely hurt after a piece of concrete came crashing through her windshield as she drove down I-95 in Boxford Wednesday.
Barbara Sweeney was driving her Lincoln in the fast lane when a hunk of concrete fell from an overpass, bouncing off her hood and into her windshield.
“It was surreal, absolutely surreal,” Sweeney said. “I was completely covered in slivers of glass… if that hit me in the eye, if I didn’t have the glasses on, we might not be talking right now.”
Sweeney said she barely managed to pull over.
“I was able to do that I think because I was in shock,” she said.
Sweeney praised the first responders who helped her after the smash and said she was lucky to walk away with nothing more than a few scratches from the glass. But she says she isn’t sure she’ll be able to drive on the highway again.
“I think I’ll be taking the back roads from now on,” Sweeney said.
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