"Flying ice from truck severely injures motorist"
Taken from chicagobreakingnews - January 6, 2010
When Peter Morano recalls the terrifying car accident, he refers to it as the "white bomb."
On Monday morning, Morano was driving his car east on Butterfield Road in Aurora when his windshield was struck by an explosion of snow and ice. As a westbound semitrailer drove under an overpass, a large block of ice flew off the truck top and torpedoed into Morano's windshield.
"The sheet of ice hit directly on the windshield, broke the windshield and sprayed the glass into my face," said Morano, 41, now recovering in his Aurora home.
"There was blood everywhere, pouring from my head, nose and my eye. I was scared that I was losing so much blood that I was going to die."
Morano, who was headed to the Warrenville day care center that his wife owns, immediately slammed onto the brakes. He initially feared that he was trapped because a large piece of glass had landed on his lap and was pressed against his face.