I was driving to work this morning when all of a sudden my driver’s side window completely shatters. I heard a loud “POP!” and the window next to me shatters and falls in a thousand little pieces. I’m okay and didn’t get cut at all but I was very scared. Immediately I thought either a rock had hit the window or someone had shot at me. Hey, it’s not all that far fetched. In case it was the latter there was no way I was going to pull over and stop. I was almost to work anyway so I just kept driving occaisionally looking at all the glass in my lap and thinking “What just happened?!”.

The first thing I do is call my insurance company. They refer me to a glass company who will be out later today to replace the window. Then I called to police to report what had happened. They said it’s actually fairly common for rocks around construction zones to be kicked up from someone else’s tires and shatter a window. There had been no other reports of shattered windows or thrown rocks in that area so it had to have been just a freak accident. Since I was driving through an area where a lot of construction is taking place I figured a truck ahead of me kicked up a rock in my direction and it had just the right speed and trajectory to shatter my window.

I grabbed a few pictures of with our company’s digital camera. Take a look.