OREGON CITY -- Within an inch of death.
That's how an Oregon City driver described his experience after a large rock bombed through his windshield late Friday evening on I-205. That rock punched clear through the glass with a loud bang and smacked the driver in the mouth as he was going 60 miles per hour.
Then, Monday morning, another driver contacted KGW and said she, too, had been a victim. The woman said a "massive" rock the size of a soccer ball hit the hood of her vehicle and then her windshield around 11 p.m., Friday.
Slideshow: Rock damage photos
In the exclusive KGW report, the woman said she believes someone intentionally threw the rock at the highway and she asked that her identity be concealed, fearing they might target her in the future for coming forward. "I looked at the hood and realized the only thing that saved me was that it hit the hood first and then bounced up to the windshield. If It had gone straight up to the windshield, it would have gone through," she told KGW.
She was very shaken up, but not injured. That wasn't the case for Drew Brewer, another driver who happened to be on the interstate at the wrong time.
"I had to check my arms, my legs, kind of feel my head," said Drew Brewer. "I felt the blood rushing down to my chest."
A rock, which Brewer described as about the weight of a laptop computer, punched a hole through his windshield and then all the way through his lip.
"The doctor looked at me and said if the rock would've hit (an inch higher) it would've pushed my nose up into my head and I wouldn't be talking to you today."
Oregon State Patrol says the source of the rock northbound along I-205 was a mystery. It happened at 11:00 p.m. Friday somewhere between exit 9 and exit 10. There were no trucks around and just a small sedan 100 yards ahead.
An accident? Or did someone do this on purpose? The woman in the second incident told KGW she suspects someone was hiding along the roadway, possibly behind a wall, and throwing rocks. Now she wants other drivers to be warned they should be extra careful on that stretch of I-205.
"They had to be right on the road, right behind the trees if it was someone that threw it," Brewer said.
If that's the case, Brewer also wanted to get the word out; he wants people to be aware and he wants to move on with his life.
"I'm just going to get a new windshield and go on with my life, you know. I'm glad my car's safe, I'm glad my wife has a husband. I'm glad I'm still alive."
