VANCOUVER, Wash. — It was a close call for a Vancouver man who was driving on Interstate 205 when his windshield was shattered after somebody tossed what he describes as beads from an overpass.
Thankfully, the driver wasn’t hurt, but whoever was behind it caused over $1,000 in damages to his car.
A normal Monday quickly turned into a nightmare for a man who drove under the 63rd Street overpass in Vancouver.
“The next thing I know, once I go under it, this object that I thought was a rock came crashing into the windshield, and I was stunned,” said the driver of the car, who didn’t want to be identified.
It wasn’t a rock that shattered the windshield — it was Orbeez, which are plastic water-absorbent beads. The driver told KGW that he believes those beads were frozen.
Once the man got home, he found them all over the inside of his car.
"There was microscopic dust everywhere," he said. "I mean, my eyes, it went in my nose, my mouth — it looked like it snowed in there."
Minutes before the driver's windshield was shattered, the driver said he saw two people along the overpass with flashlights.
According to Washington State Patrol, this isn’t the only incident they are looking into. There have been several reports of people throwing things, such as rocks and cinder blocks, from overpasses in the same area over the last couple of weeks. Nobody has been hurt so far, but two cars have been totaled.
As for the driver of from Monday night’s incident, they said they plan on being even more careful the next time they drive through this area of Vancouver.
A trooper with the Washington State Patrol said they’re looking into all of the cases, but at this point, aren’t saying if they are connected.