A woman driving to a business appointment along major South Florida highway had a brush with death when a large metal rod smashed through her front windshield just inches from where she was sitting.
Tenielle McConney posted Facebook pictures of what happened to her mother, Teri McConney, late Thursday morning as she was driving west on State Road 836 near 107th Avenue in west Miami-Dade.
“This metal rod fell off the back of the truck, the driver of the truck got out picked up another piece that had also fallen off and left. Didn’t have the decency to even check on my mother,” Tenielle McConney wrote.
Shaken up, but unhurt, Teri McConney told WSVN-Ch. 7 she couldn’t believe it when the driver of the pickup that had lost part of its load — including the metal rod — didn’t stick around.
“He had to have seen that he hit me,” she told the station.
McConney’s daughter went to the crash scene and saw that the metal rod that pierced the windshield of her mother’s SUV landed just inches from the driver’s seat and was angled next to the rear-view mirror from which rosary beads holding a crucifix were dangling.
“Thank God. It’s like I’m alive and I was reborn because it was bad,” Teri McConney told WSVN.
Her daughter urged her Facebook friends to share information about her mother’s saga in an effort to locate the pickup driver who left the scene.
“Hopefully this man turns himself in or the police find him ASAP,” the post said.