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Concrete Through Windshield Kills Driver

Concrete Through Windshield Kills Driver - Friday, March 13, 2009 at 6:27PM EST

A Monroe County man was killed in a freak accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Carbon County.
A chunk of concrete crashed through the window of the car driven by 48 year-old Pierre Louverture of Long Pond. In just an instant, a ride on the turnpike takes a deadly turn. Gregory Adams of Lehighton says “you never think of anything like that especially a big boulder that size coming through your windshield."

This video was taken at the scene just after 9a. m. Friday morning. The accident happened less than a mile north of the Lehighton exit. That's the direction Heather Kenamond and her family, are going. “It's my biggest fear. I'm always thinking about that if something would fall down or fall of the truck into me." Witnesses tell Eyewitness News the Louverture died at the scene. They say the concrete possibly flew off a truck.

Drivers we talked to about this accident, say they take special precautions whenever they're behind a truck with an open load." Julie Ershadi of Bryn Mawr says "I get in the other lane. I don't like to drive behind trucks. I don't even like to drive next to them." Kenamond says “we always turn off or get on the other side of the road or something." It makes one driver angry to think truckers may not be securing their loads properly. Ershadi says ”I'm definitely going to plan to drive safer. Not to let that happen. I feel bad for him."

Neither of the passengers in the car was hurt. Police says they're still trying to figure out where the concrete came from.
 


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