A ten year old lost her life when a four inch rock was kicked up by a semi and went through the car windshield:


We have lost three windshields from trucks kicked up on the freeway in Idaho. My youngest had two busted in one year at BYUI. We don't even live in Idaho other than one kid was there for 12 months!!!

I went to visit him this March and when he picked me up, his car windshield had deep cracks everywhere. As we drove toward Rexburg, I told him "this is not safe to drive on the freeway. We are getting this repaired this weekend." Right then a super loud crack comes from the windshield. I put my hands up in front of my face thinking glass is going to impale me. As I look again, there is a baseball sized almost perfect circle of a crack directly in front of my face with a pulverized center where the rock had hit. The semi in front of us was at a safe distance. We were not following close at all.

The new windshield lasted four months until it got rock chipped on my son's way down to Utah two weeks ago. The other windshield that was broken was on I-15 when I was riding along with my older son between BYU and Spokane.

Is this a common occurrence in Idaho? Not four inch rocks. That is terrifying. Or are we just super unlucky?