OREGON CITY -- "Within an inch of death."
That's how an Oregon City driver described his experience after a large rock bombed through his windshield late Friday evening on I-205. The rock punched clear through the glass with a loud bang and smacked the driver in the mouth as he was going 60 miles per hour.
Monday morning, another driver contacted KGW and said she, too, had been a victim. The woman said a "massive" rock the size of a soccer ball hit the hood of her vehicle and then her windshield around 11 p.m., Friday.
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The woman said she believes someone intentionally threw the rock at the highway and she asked that her identity be concealed, fearing they might target her in the future for coming forward.
"I looked at the hood and realized the only thing that saved me was that it hit the hood first and then bounced up to the windshield," she said. "If It had gone straight up to the windshield, it would have gone through."
The victim was very shaken up but not injured. Christopher Brewer wasn't so lucky.
"I had to check my arms, my legs, kind of feel my head," said Brewer. "I felt the blood rushing down to my chest."
A rock "about the weight of a laptop computer" punched a hole through Brewer's windshield and hit him in the lip.
"The doctor looked at me and said if the rock would've hit (an inch higher) it would've pushed my nose up into my head and I wouldn't be talking to you today," Brewer said.
Oregon State Patrol says the source of the rock was a mystery other than it was thrown somewhere along northbound I-205 between exits 9 and 10. It happened at 11:00 p.m. Friday. There were no trucks around and just a small sedan 100 yards ahead.
Was it an accident or did someone do this on purpose?
The woman in the second incident told KGW she suspects someone was hiding along the roadway, possibly behind a wall, and throwing rocks. She warned other drivers to "be extra careful" on that stretch of I-205.
"They had to be right on the road, right behind the trees if it was someone that threw it," Brewer said.
If that's the case, Brewer also wanted to get the word out; he wants people to be aware and he wants to move on with his life.
"I'm just going to get a new windshield and go on with my life, you know. I'm glad my car's safe, I'm glad my wife has a husband. I'm glad I'm still alive."
