Driver injured after ice chunk flies off truck, goes through car windshield

TAINTER, Wis. (FOX 9) - A driver in western Wisconsin was injured Monday afternoon after a large chunk of snow and ice fell off a truck and went through the windshield of his car.

The incident occurred around 4:25 p.m. on Dunn County Highway B in Tainter, near Menomonie, according to the Dunn County Sheriff's Office. The driver of a 1998 Buick had been driving southbound on the highway when the chunk of snow and ice dislodged from a truck heading northbound on the road.

The chunk went all the way through the vehicle, filling the back of the Buick with several inches of snow. The driver suffered minor injuries. 

The sheriff's office is asking drivers to slow down and take time to clean off their vehicles before traveling on the highways.