State Police remind drivers to always secure their hatchets

By adamg on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 2:34pm

State Police report a hatchet came flying through the windshield of a car traveling south on I-95 in Topsfield this morning due to the carelessness of the driver of the landscaping truck in front of them - who failed to tie down the hatchet:

Thankfully, the axe only went halfway through the windshield. The passenger who is partially seen in the photo was shaken up (who wouldn't be?) but not injured. Trooper Joseph Risteen of the Newbury Barracks responded to the scene and cited the truck driver, who is from Peabody, for failure to secure cargo.

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Bill the landscapper

By Lecil on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 2:37pm.

For both a replacement windshield and to clean the passenger's side seat and pants!

Yyyiiikkkeeessss!

Reportedly, Susan Tran Is Rushing To The Scene

By Elmer on Tue, 08/30/2016 - 11:55pm.

lol

By nikkinunu on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 4:18pm.

Good One!

Susan Tran - In Elegant Dress With Matching Gloves - I Like Her!

By Elmer on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 6:51pm.

^{Channel 7 News Video - Revere Tornado}

WHDH blew it

By adamg on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 8:03pm.

They assigned some other reporter to the story.

Checked the directories

By AMCoffee on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 2:52pm.

Didn't find Lizzie Borden Landscaping with a place of business in Peabody.

Yet another reason

By roadman on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 2:52pm.

not to hang behind landscaping trucks.

Or let them pass you?

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 2:55pm.

Or cut you off?

Without knowing the circumstances, we can't know that they were following.

The cops say the driver of the car was doing the speed limit, which puts them in the lower quartile of traffic speed on that stretch.

Where did I say that this driver

By roadman on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 7:04pm.

was following the landscaping truck? I merely pointed out that this incident demonstrates one of several reasons why it isn't good practice to follow immediately behind a landscaping truck. Especially on a high speed highway like I-95.

Right you are, roadmap

By From the nice part on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 10:34pm.

You don't have to follow even if they get in front of you. Slow down and move away. I always, always, try to stay away from all trucks with loads in their beds.That's 101.

Next session class shall discuss not letting yourself get boxed in by tractor-trailors as well as passenger vehicles.
Give yourself an escape route!

Borden Landscaping Service?

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 2:52pm.

Of New Bedford?

Try Fall River

By Queequeg on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 3:36pm.

Try Fall River

Duly Noted!

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 5:01pm.

Same thing.

By Dave on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 5:33pm.

Same thing.

BBC news

By MadMax on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 7:51pm.

This great photo made the beeb news.

Was very amusing too. The axe

By DTP on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 7:49am.

Was very amusing too. The axe came off a lorry on "the I-95 Motorway".

I guess that's still better than the staties calling it "Route 95" though.

I'll share a cozy B+B with you any day

By Call me Ishmael on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 10:40pm.

You noble savage, you!

Holy

By Hyde_Parker on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 2:52pm.

*$%#!!!

Glad that no one was injured.

GOOD GOD.

By gotdatwmd on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 3:05pm.

GOOD GOD.

This is some terrifying Final Destination shit right here.

Typical road rage incident.

By Rob Not Verified on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 3:29pm.

Typical road rage incident. Driver had a real axe to grind.

Now the middle class is

By Dave on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 5:37pm.

Now the middle class is getting hatcheted as well as hammered. Wait til they hear about this at the cheese store.

Prepare for the worst

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 8:24pm.

... always batten down your hatchets.

Last time

By Sock_Puppet on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 7:02pm.

I count chickens in the car

this story has been translated by the BBC

By anon on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 8:30pm.

A car passenger is "shaken up" after an axe flew off the back of a lorry on a motorway and crashed midway through the windscreen, police say.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28573371

lol

By nikkinunu on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 2:18am.

Thanks for the link!!

They have a find/replace macro at the BBC?

By Alex_Toth on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 8:55am.

They must take the news reports from the US and do a find and replace on "truck", "highway", and "windshield" whenever they write something.

The nomenclature is actually

By gotdatwmd on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 9:11am.

The nomenclature is actually wrong. A lorry is a semi truck, not just any old truck.

Everyone British I know uses

By DTP on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 9:22am.

Everyone British I know uses lorry in pretty much every instance where we use truck. Though they sometimes use truck themselves.

From my experience, and from some quick dictionary checks just now, lorry seems go be a generic word for any truck.

Also I note that Top Gear's usage is consistent with that.

Wha? No way in hell they

By gotdatwmd on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 10:33am.

Wha? No way in hell they called that Hilux a lorry.

No, true, I had forgotten

By DTP on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 11:02am.

No, true, I had forgotten about pickups.

But look at, say, the Burma Special. Those certainly weren't semis they were driving. Clarkson's was even a similar truck to this one! Yet every time it was almost always "lorry" (or for Clarkson, "sports lorry").

Clicked on your link and saw

By mf on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 10:01am.

Clicked on your link and saw it got picked up elsewhere and translated.

LUCKY ESCAPE: Passenger avoids death after AXE smashes through windscreen
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/391885/Car-passenger-escape-... (London)

Flying axe lodges in dashboard
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/motoring/10331461/Fly... (New Zealand)

Axe Flies Through Car Windshield On Highway
http://news.sky.com/story/1310474/axe-flies-through-car-windshield-on-hi... (England)

At least

By Sock_Puppet on Thu, 07/31/2014 - 11:58am.

the landscaper has ended his long argument with windshields.

State Police remind drivers to always secure their hatchets

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