Hi Guys,
This happened this morning on my way to work.. I've just looked over the footage and I reckon the rocks come from the sky?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-gzbUHx1kg
Thoughts? the damage is very minor on my windscreen but I hate getting small dings and chips on my car..
I've kept a small fragment that was found under the wiper arm.. it's tiny! I'm guessing it was bigger..
Link to the photo of the stone.. http://imgur.com/a/6E7oT
FYI this is macro so it is tiny.. about the size of a pea.. I'm unsure how one is able to completely tell if it is indeed a meteorite.. I will try take some better shots tomorrow :) I'm interested!
Haha I was only joking - I'm 99% sure it just flung up from the road by the truck. It's happened to me but usually with tiny bits of gravel rather than decent sized ones like you got hit with.
Meteorite sounds more exciting but..
Definitely from the truck. You can see it at the 6 second mark, it would have come out of the tray of the truck and been caught in the slipstream, carrying it relatively horizontal for a while before it drops from the height of the tray to the height of your windscreen. The appearance that "it fell from the sky" is just your perspective from a lower point. That it appears to come from the right of the truck could be explained by being carried by turbulence or the fact both vehicles have moved forward some distance from where it is observed, also he's moving slightly left and you are moving right. In actuality the stone wouldn't be coming towards you any faster than you drove into it!
⛅️Sky - God is sending a message ⚡️not to follow trucks so closely🚚
I'm not following it to closely.. But you think otherwise?
You probably are a bit close. The wide angle view of the camera distorts things and makes it seem bigger than it is in real life. You are only traveling a second behind the truck. Contemporary wisdom is that you should be at least two seconds behind the car in front. This provides a sufficient buffer to allow for reaction time, sudden braking etc. to avoid an accident. You can apply the two-second rule at any speed. I used the broken lines painted on the road for reference; at the 1 second mark you see the truck cross the start of the part of the road where the lines get closer together as the left lane runs out and merges with the center lane. You cross that same point on the road one second later. It is the same later in the video as you pass other fixed objects like the light poles, and the 100 km/h signs if the video ran just a little longer.
That and to get windscreen protection on your insurance. God or a gimmick from insurace companies. Hilarious! Are you serious? This happens every day. Good luck blaming the truck. Just being realistic. Fat chance. Like pot holes on the road that ruin your rims. Tough. Not your fault but good luck seeking damages.
Would you consider this the trucks fault for not covering its tray? I'm considering having the company held responsible for the repairs on my windscreen given that I have plenty of evidence?
They might contest saying the rock came from the road but from what you are saying above you believe the rock came from the trucks tray?
The clip also shows that you were speeding.
2 ~ 3km/hr it was on cruze control at the time and the road had a slight hill in it
@Gomo: The way the speed was bouncing up and down I would guess your camera is getting its speed from GPS, which is what they normally display!
Unfortunately it will come down to a "you-said" vs. "he-said". And I bet he says "no, not me". I should have said it would probably have come out of the tray of the truck, as we can't quite make out where it definitely originates, it may have been flicked up by the tyre as well. You would need that as proof to say where it came from if you wanted to hold them to account and it would need to be good enough to convince a judge. You can't really blame someone for kicking up something from the road if that is the case. If it were an unsealed dirt road I'd be more inclined to believe it was kicked up off the ground, rather than a well traveled sealed highway where the traffic would have already run over any loose gravel and "swept" the road clean. But considering the type of vehicle in front of you is normally associated with hauling gravel or machinery that handles gravel, it is a safe bet it came from there.
Got a quote for repairs, O`Brian have said can't fix it as the marks are two small and to fill in the chips would require to dig more glass out, then fill, (It would never look the same)
Advised to replace entire screen at quote $690 Fitted GST Included..
Claim it through your insurance, if you have the windshield option it will be free.
Friend of mine reckons it's from the ground and flicked up, see attached photo's.. http://imgur.com/a/bTLKe
I'm still undecided :/
Those tipper trucks are known for spilling their load over the road.
They have a small gap between where the back flap which rotates down and is certainly big enough for small stones to slip through.
Wwtching your video, it certainly appears that the stones projection is from the truck, so I would contact the truck company involved and if possible, cross check that the stone you have is the same material as they carry, and then present this evidence to them in the hope that they may cough up for your window repairs.
Its a long shot and you may just told f. Off, but it coukd be worth a go.
Defs a meteorite. You should've gone back to collect it so you can donate it to the SMithsonian