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TexasProgresive

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3. "SUV changed lanes before manhole cover flew through windshield, killing teacher"

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 06:59 AM

Mar 2016

Caitlin Clavette, 35, killed in crash
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Investigates has learned that video from highway cameras shows an SUV changing lanes in front of art teacher Caitlin Clavette's car. Not much more can be seen, but they believe that vehicle passed over the manhole cover, dislodging it and sending it through the air and into the windshield of Clavette's Honda.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/woman-killed-by-airborne-manhole-on-i93-police-say/37961154

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New manhole cover bolted down where teacher died in freak accident [View all] unhappycamper Mar 2016 OP

Maybe I missed it, but what caused a 200 pound manhole cover to suddenly fly into the air? n/t RKP5637 Mar 2016 #1

"SUV changed lanes before manhole cover flew through windshield, killing teacher" TexasProgresive Mar 2016 #3

I read 3 articles on this hoping for an answer. TexasProgresive Mar 2016 #2

Scary stuff. I've only lifed one a couple of times in my life, and we used a hook on the hole at the RKP5637 Mar 2016 #4