{"id":389417,"date":"2026-07-07T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:28:15","slug":"metal-pole-pierces-windshield-hits-pregnant-driver-on-socal-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389417\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal pole pierces windshield, hits pregnant driver on SoCal freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A mother and her unborn twins miraculously survived after a metal pole fell off a truck on a Southern California freeway, pierced her car windshield and struck her in the stomach, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>In what could have been a scene from a horror movie \u2014 but fortunately had a happy ending \u2014 the California Highway Patrol said the expectant mother was driving a Ram ProMaster northbound on the 5 Freeway in the Temecula area on Wednesday around 2:15 p.m. when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn what can only be described as a miracle, the woman sustained only minor injuries, and the twins are reported to be fine,\u201d the CHP<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CaliforniaHighwayPatrolTemecula\/posts\/pfbid0rkumGqWFQ3Nrm5GLbmpnEwuqzTqm4hUzEnrcawZT9qNw1hHdHCByqxupCCVsrPyel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> said on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"A metal bar that fell from a truck and pierced a van's windshield.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783445295_251_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on the 5 Freeway in the Temecula area around 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>(CHP)<\/p>\n<p>Photos released by CHP show a hole punched through the van\u2019s windshield and a web of cracks surrounding it. The pole appears to be a car hauler tie-down bar.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CHP, unsecured loads contribute to thousands of crashes each year, which lead to serious injuries and death. Road debris alone causes over 200,000 crashes in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA simple metal bar became a high-speed projectile \u2014 a stark reminder that what isn\u2019t properly secured can turn deadly in an instant,\u201d the CHP said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother and her unborn twins miraculously survived after a metal pole fell off a truck on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,852,350,156953,6316,2824,156955,40417,3293,6187,156954,156956,16604,316,52687,72],"class_list":["post-389417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chp","tag-crash","tag-metal-pole","tag-mother","tag-photo","tag-pregnant-driver","tag-socal-freeway","tag-thousand","tag-truck","tag-unborn-twin","tag-unsecured-load","tag-web","tag-wednesday","tag-windshield","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}