A Pennsylvania mom was brutally injured when a giant slab of ice flew of a tractor-trailer and smashed through her windshield while she was driving with her 7-year-old daughter.
Madeline Grace, 29, shared photos of her blood-splattered, badly swollen face after the freak accident broke her eye socket as she drove down a busy highway Saturday.
“I feel like I was run over by a truck,” Grace told WFMZ. “It just felt like somebody hit me in the face really hard.”
The mom was driving with her daughter just outside Pittsburgh early Saturday when the huge slab of ice fell off the trailer.
“I saw it, and I knew there wasn’t really anything I could do to avoid it,” she recalled. “I think I was just kind of bracing for impact.”
Grace’s daughter, Mila, seven, was in the back seat of her Subaru SUV and was left completely helpless. She wasn’t injured – even though the windshield imploded.
“She’s crying, and you know, I’m telling her, ‘I’m okay, I’m okay, baby, don’t worry about me,’” Grace said.
“I catch a view of myself in the rear-view mirror, and I’m like, I am not okay.”
Grace said she has visions of the moments leading up to the windshield shattering. “Every time I close my eyes, I see that chunk of ice coming at me,” she told CBS Pittsburgh.
Despite the broken socket, Grace is expected to recover and not lose sight in the injured eye, her doctors have told her.
In Pennsylvania, drivers who don’t clear snow or ice from their cars and it injure or kills someone face fines up to $1,500. Cops are appealing for dashcam footage.
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