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Video shows aftermath of wood board crashing through truck's windshield in Avon

No one was injured last Friday after a wood board fell off a truck on I-90 and went through the windshield of a trailing pickup.

AVON, Ohio — Body camera video from the Avon Police Department shows the moments after a wood board broke through the windshield of a truck on I-90.

Sgt. Chris Barton told 3News the force has never seen something strike a vehicle that compared to this incident. This happened last Friday as two trucks headed west on I-90 — a truck hauling lumber lost one of its boards and it struck a pickup in another lane.

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If the board would have hit the truck a foot to the right, it could've seriously injured the young driver. If it would've been a foot to the left, it could've missed the truck entirely.

"The wood left the vehicle, it went airborne, went through their windshield into the front passenger seat," Barton said. "Luckily, there was no one sitting in it."

Barton told WKYC the young driver kept his composure after the truck was hit by the wood.

"It's very incredible that, you know, he was not injured and that his vehicle didn't lose control and strike another vehicle, causing a second series of incidents," Barton added.

Witnesses were able to inform police of the license plate for the truck hauling wood. The driver, apologetic and embarrassed, according to police, was cited for "unsecured loose load."

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