INDIANAPOLIS - New video from inside the cab of a Wayne Township fire truck shows a slab of ice as it crashes through the windshield.
The incident happened just after 10 a.m. Tuesday near 21st Street and Girls School Road when a large chunk of ice flew off the roof of a passing pickup truck.
The ice struck the driver’s side of the fire truck, knocking out the windshield.
“I saw a vehicle coming at us and snow and ice came off the roof and like a second later, it was in the windshield,” said Matt Ervin, who was driving the fire truck. "(The windshield) came up real close and hit me right in the forehead.”
Ervin was able to safely bring the fire truck to a stop. The driver of the pickup truck continued east on 21st Street, officials said.
“We’re lucky we didn’t get hurt worse,” Ervin said.
The fire truck was not on a run during the incident. Fire officials said it’s possible the driver of the pickup truck did not know what had happened.
Republished with permission from The Indy Channel