What seem to be an April Fool’s video turned out to be one of the scariest real-life car accident ever caught on video, minus those gory blood and head exploding stuff of course, since there’s no one getting hurt, which is a miracle.

Wendy Cobb of Shelby, North Carolina was driving on April 1 when the accident happened. You might call her an idiot and having immediate road offence for using her cell phone while driving, but sometimes what gives, since you get to film such rare case.

Cobb says she was using her cameraphone to film two trucks who were holding up traffic so she could report the incident. As Cobb turned her phone toward the road in front of her, the truck and trailer in front of her kicked up a 2×4 lying in the road that shattered the windshield of her Kia Sedona minivan and very nearly impaled her. Luckily, Ms. Cobb’s children weren’t with her when the accident happened, or the results may have been far more tragic.

According Cobb, the only injury she received was a tiny glass cut. Damage to her car was limited to the hood and windshield. Cobb says she hasn’t watched the video since the day of the accident, but has received plenty of emails from people who still think it was an April Fool’s prank, calling the laminated glass windshield smash ‘a shortcut photoshop’.

Well, at least this gives us a lesson not to tailgate other vehicles too closely. Last I know, tailgating a truck loaded full with tiny rocks resulted in my windshield shattered due to a tiny rock that fall from the truck. Luckily the glass is laminated.

SOURCE via NBC