Calgary man lucky to be alive after close call on Stoney Trail

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Calgary man lucky to be alive after close call on Stoney Trail
Calgary Police ServiceStoney Trail CrashTonneau Cover Pierces Windshield
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A Calgary driver said pieces off a tonneau cover flew off a pickup truck and nearly impaled him, as he drove along Stoney Trail on Friday afternoon.

A Calgary driver says he was terrified when parts flew off a truck on Stoney Trail and pierced his windshield. The man says it happened Friday afternoon and he’s thankful no one was killed. Doug Vaessen reports.

“I swerved to avoid it as much as I could but it still struck the passenger side of my vehicle sending an aluminum rod and pieces of plastic and whatnot through the windshield, blowing up the side passenger window, breaking off a mirror, busting up a headlamp,” he saidView image in full screen “When people tell you they saw their life flash before their eyes, I saw my life flash before my eyes,” he said. “It looked like it was all slow motion until it hit the glass then everything sped up again I was just thankful that nothing had hit me.”

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