WAUKESHA, Wis. — Boom.
It's the last sound you want to hear while driving on the freeway. For Nick Klug, this wasn't the only of his five senses that were triggered Friday afternoon on the freeway. While driving down the 55 mph freeway, his vision was immediately obscured by spider cracks filling the entirety of his windshield.
“All of a sudden, my windshield,” Nick Klug said. “Boom.”
Klug says a large chunk of ice flew from the top of a semi and landed on his windshield.
“It was just terrifying,” Klug said. “I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life and I don’t want to experience anything like that ever again.”
Klug and his fiancee say the crash caused pain to their head, chest, and back. By Friday evening, they were debating going back to the hospital because the pain had resurfaced.
“Now that the adrenaline has worn off and the reality kind of sets in,” Klug said. “You’re feeling all the bumps and bruises. The pain, just everything.”
While most vehicles have the roofs cleaned off of any snow, it’s not hard to find those who didn’t. Cars, box trucks and semis were seen on the freeway with enough frozen snow on the roof to cause similar issues Klug faced.
Twice, TMJ4 News cameras caught pieces of icy snow fluttering from the roof of a speeding vehicle on the freeway and falling to the roadway below, smashing into a frigid firework poof of snow. However, they were far smaller than what Klug experienced.
“It was a pretty big piece of ice,” Klug said. “Considering how much damage it did to the windshield.”
As Klug and his fiancee recover from a traumatic experience, he hopes people will see the photos of his car, the injuries he has and remember to not just clear the windows on their car.
“It takes two minutes to get all the snow off your roof,” Klug said. “It takes two minutes to potentially save a life.”
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