Last week, a woman driving on Route 22<\/a> in Bethlehem when she was injured by a chunk of ice that smashed her windshield.<\/p>\nShe’s been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n
Since that accident, another woman reached out to us wanting to tell her story.<\/p>\n
Madeline Grace is from western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
She suffered severe facial injuries when the same thing happened to her just one day after the accident in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
Ice, breaking off the top of a tractor-trailer.<\/p>\n
“It just felt like somebody, hit me in the face really hard. I don’t know. Today I feel like I was run over by a truck.” said Madeline Grace of Moon Township in Allegheny County.<\/p>\n
Grace, 29, is the face of an ongoing issue. On Saturday she was driving outside Pittsburgh when a huge chunk of ice smashed through her windshield.<\/p>\n
“I saw it, and I knew there wasn’t really anything I could do to avoid it. I think I was just kind of bracing for impact,” said Grace.<\/p>\n
The ice crashed into her face, breaking her eye socket; fracturing her nose, as she came to a stop in the fast lane of a busy highway.<\/p>\n
“The glass shattered, tiny little pieces everywhere. It was like sand. It was in my mouth. I was crunching on it,” Grace recalled.<\/p>\n
Grace’s 7-year-old daughter, Mila, was in the back seat.<\/p>\n
“She’s crying, and you know, I’m telling her, ‘I’m okay, I’m okay, baby, don’t worry about me.’ I catch a view of myself in the rear-view mirror, and I’m like, I am not okay,” said Grace.<\/p>\n
The accident came just one day after a similar accident on Route 22, where falling ice from a truck forced another woman to be taken to St. Luke’s. She was treated and released. Grace says her friends emailed her a 69 News report of that crash.<\/p>\n
“They thought it was me. And for a split second I thought it was me too because the story is exactly the same. I mean, we both even drive Subarus,” said Grace.<\/p>\n
Madeline says she wants to meet the other driver.<\/p>\n
“She and I are having a very similar experience right now, and if there’s anything I can do to help her, and anything that we could do to connect with each other, I would love that,” said Grace.<\/p>\n
Grace also has a message for other drivers: Clean off your vehicles.<\/p>\n
“I just want to bring awareness to the fact that this is not an isolated incident. Something needs to change,” Grace said.<\/p>\n
Grace still hasn’t regained her sight. She has a doctor’s appointment Thursday to see if she’ll need surgery.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Police are still investigating both accidents and they’re trying to arrange a meeting between Grace, her daughter, and the other victim in the Bethlehem incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police have been reminding people to clean the snow and ice off their vehicles before driving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,21294,50010,14854,1224,20223,27362,50011,50012],"class_list":["post-103325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-facial-injuries","tag-flying-ice","tag-moon-township","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-route-22","tag-tractor-trailer","tag-vehicle-safety","tag-windshield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}