CALGARY — A woman died Tuesday after a piece of a commercial truck’s brake drum smashed through her windshield on a busy Calgary highway.
Police say the woman was driving on Highway 1 Monday night when another truck drove over the piece of brake drum, throwing it up in the air.
The piece of metal went through the windshield of her Toyota RAV 4, striking her in the head.
The 25-year-old woman was transported to hospital, where she later died.
Her identity was not released.
Police were urging large commercial truck drivers to check their brakes in case the drum fell from their vehicles without them knowing.