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A pair of San Jose motorists say they’ve had their windshields smashed by rocks being thrown at their cars as they were exiting Interstate 680 at Berryessa Avenue, according to two reports.
According to NBC Bay Area, one woman whose windshield was smashed realized after the terrifying incident that her dashboard-mounted video camera had captured not just the rocks flying into her window, but the man in the bushes on the shoulder who threw them.
The first attack, which the news station reported Wednesday, occurred as Li Deng was driving north on I-680 through East San Jose. As she was about to exit, two large rocks suddenly smashed into her windshield. At the time, she told the station, she didn’t know where they had come from. A few days later, she realized the camera had captured the entire event, though the suspect’s face is nearly impossible to make out from the video.
Deng reported the attack to the California Highway Patrol, which did not immediately return a call for comment Friday.
A San Jose woman's car is damaged by two large rocks while she drives along Interstate 680, and she later learns through her dashboard camera it was an intentional act. https://t.co/lAPUJUh9Lh pic.twitter.com/oVnTqHvfje
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) December 6, 2018
Neither Deng nor her mother, who was a passenger in the car, were seriously hurt. Deng told NBC Bay Area that “my mom and me were so traumatized. We didn’t realize what really happened at that moment. My face, my body is just full of glass.”
Once they watched the video, Deng told the station, “we find out there’s one guy throwing rocks.”
The person in the video is hard to make out; he or she only appears briefly from behind a cement barrier under a big tree and the face is blurred. The video posted by NBC Bay Area shows the person wearing a light sweatshirt and lobbing the two rocks onto the freeway exit just as Deng’s vehicle approaches. The station said the CHP was investigating and that officers had searched the area twice this week.
After sharing the video on social media, Deng said she heard from other motorists who said they had been hit by rocks in the same area.
“Definitely, I want this guy to be arrested because I don’t want any other people to get hurt,” she told the station.
In the second incident, reported Friday by KRON-TV, Theresa Vu said she’d been last weekend she was exiting I-680 at the same place when she saw someone in the bushes throw a large rock at her car.
“I just saw the rock coming, but I couldn’t do anything,” she told the station. The rock, she said, smashed through her windshield and landed inside her car, but she said it was too dark to see who threw the rocks.
Anyone with information about the incidents, or who have experience similar attacks, is asked to call the CHP at 408-655-2620.
