WATCH: Lucky truck driver avoids death after bar crashes through windshield
TORONTO – A Toronto truck driver says he is lucky to be alive after a metal rod struck his vehicle and pierced the windshield while traveling on the Don Valley Parkway early Friday morning.
The incident happened around 4 a.m. on the southbound lanes of the DVP between Eglinton Avenue and Don Mills Road.
“All I saw was ‘boom’, like a bomb,” driver Benjamin Kojo told Global News. “When I found out, they said a big rod in my truck in front of my windshield going into my roof.”
WATCH: Truck driver Benjamin Kojo says he’s lucky to be alive after a piece of metal struck his vehicle on the DVP.
Kojo said the piece of metal fell off a garbage truck and that he initially tried to follow the vehicle before pulling over to call police.
“The guy was going that fast, the thing fly that fast. I would have been dead right now,” he said.
“God is good. I thank God for that.”
There’s no immediate word from police if any charges will be laid against the garbage truck driver.
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