RINGGOLD, Ga. — A Tennessee woman is dead after an object from another car on a Georgia highway came loose and went through the windshield of the car she was in and hit her.
It happened in Ringgold, Georgia, on Wednesday. The family of 20-year-old Autumn McClure told television station WTVC in Chattanooga that the object was a brake caliper that flew off another vehicle.
As of Friday, there was no word on if the other driver stopped or realized what happened.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, objects in the road are responsible for more than 700 deaths each year.
Information for this story comes from Chattanooga TV station WTVC through CNN
Close calls in the Houston area
Flying objects on the road is something we’ve reported on in the Houston area.
Last October, we shared the story of Amanda Kilian, who survived after a 9-inch pipe came flying through her windshield while she was driving along Beltway 8. KHOU 11’s Marcelino Benito spoke with her after the terrifying ordeal.
And just a couple months before that, Megan Lahoun's front windshield was slammed by a piece of metal that was kicked up from the roadway along the Eastex Freeway in Montgomery County. In that instance, as KHOU 11’s Matt Dougherty reported, dashcam video showed the close call.
