OREGON CITY, Ore. -- Within an inch of death.
That's how an Oregon City driver describes his experience after a large rock bombed through his windshield late Friday evening on I-205.
That rock punched clean through the glass with a loud bang and smacked the driver in the mouth as he was going 60 miles per hour.
"I had to check my arms, my legs, kind of feel my head," said Drew Brewer. "I felt the blood rushing down to my chest."
The rock, about the weight of a laptop computer, punched a hole all the way through his 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."
Oregon State Patrol says the source of the rock northbound along I-205 is a mystery. It happened at 11:00 p.m. Friday somewhere between exit 9 and exit 10. There were no trucks around and just a small sedan a hundred yards ahead.
Another driver told KGW a rock hit her car in the same area on the same night. But in her case, the rock bounced off the hood of her car and she was not injured.
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. Now she wants other drivers to be warned they should be extra careful on that stretch of I-205, between exits 9 and 10.
"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."
