A Delta woman has been left shaken after an object hit her car and shattered its rear window while driving along Highway 99 near the Massey Tunnel Wednesday morning.
Janna Lee tells CityNews she was driving northbound around 7:30 a.m. under the 17A overpass when she heard a loud bang.
“I heard something like crash, and I initially I thought it was a rock that had been thrown on the roof of my car. And I was kind of like, ‘what the hell?’,” said Lee.
She says she noticed the back window was smashed, but when she got out to inspect it, the object was nowhere to be found.
“I put my car into park, and I got out of my car, and I ran to the person behind in a bit of a panic and little bit of shock, and I just asked her if she had seen what had happened. And she was a little bit taken aback, and said, ‘No, what do you mean?’ And I said, ‘Well, look at my back windshield.’ And she said, ‘No, sorry, I didn’t see anything.’”
Lee says she called her workplace to say she would be late arriving, and called a nearby colleague for comfort, but her calls to police didn’t go as well.
“I called the Delta emergency line — because I didn’t know whether I should be reporting it or not — and they said it wasn’t their jurisdiction, and that they would transfer me to [the BC Highway Patrol division] of the RCMP,” says Lee.
“So then I talked to the gentleman on the phone at the RCMP, and he says that it wasn’t something that they would make a report on, and that I was just to call ICBC and file a claim with them.”
She says, while still in shock, she went through the motions of an ICBC claim, before she returned home and realized that something was amiss.
“When I got home, I was kind of like, ‘Well, wait a minute. Maybe this needs to be more investigated.’”
Lee said she’d like to know what happened, and compared her morning to a similar incident two weeks ago, along Highway 1 in Burnaby, where a rock went through a woman’s front windshield, ultimately killing her.
“It’s terrifying… My heart really goes out to her family. You don’t think it’s going to happen to you,” said Lee. “One minute you could be just driving, and then the next minute, from out of nowhere, you could be, injured, or even worse.”
CityNews has reached out to BC Highway Patrol which says it will be looking into the incident.