Sep 25, 2006 11:40 pm US/Eastern
Police Searching For Car In Highway Rock Attacks
by Ron Sanders
SPENCER (CBS4) ―
State Police are searching for a small black car with two men inside following another highway rock attack in Spencer. The latest incident involved an SUV on Monday night.
This is the fourth case in the span of a week, where a vehicle was struck by objects thrown from a passing car on Route 49 in Spencer.
Police are trying to get fingerprints off a bottle of suntan lotion that landed in the windshield of a tractor-trailer on Sunday night.
"Very scary, very shocking, like you were in a head-on collision," said Cheryl McKissick.
Bruce and Cheryl McKissick, of Charlton, were crossing the East Brookfield line on Route 49 when the bottle hit their windshield. Neither was injured.
"All of a sudden there was a big thud on the windshield and glass was flying at my face and everywhere. I was picking glass out of my mouth," Cheryl McKissick told CBS4's Ron Sanders.
"It was horrible for a couple of minutes, we never saw this coming or anything, it just happened," said Bruce McKissick.
Windshields of a car carrier and a tractor-trailer were struck by rocks on the same stretch of Route 49 south last Monday and Wednesday night. There were two minor injuries.
"The projectiles were thrown from moving vehicles. All of the descriptions are different so we don't know if it's three different vehicles or the same group of people driving different vehicles," said Spencer Police Chief David Darrin.
Because rocks were used in the first two incidents, it's possible Sunday's accident may have been a copy-cat crime.
Last week, State Police in Leominister reported three incidents were pumpkins were thrown off highway overpasses on Route 2. One man suffered minor injuries when his SUV was struck.
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