“Highway patrol officers in Washington say a female driver is lucky to be alive after ramming her car into a trailer filled with long wooden teepee poles. The poles smashed through the front windscreen, completely pierced through the car and smashed through the rear windscreen as well. No details have been released about the driver involved, other than the fact that she was taken to hospital with a number of injuries. Miraculously, though, none of the injuries were considered life-threatening. A report in the Komo News said a couple driving a station wagon was transporting the teepee poles – used to make the classic American Indian conical tents – when they slowed down because a truck was turning off the Mount Baker Highway into Everson Goshen Road near Deming around 10am yesterday.” w/ photos
