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Paper cup shatters trucker's windshield

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Glass explodes into Missouri man's face as he was driving on highway in Texas
Duration 1:40
Date May 11, 2012

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There's a beautiful afternoon thunderstorms were come in and just minding my own business I heard a big explosion and got winded.

Richard -- -- head took the brunt of it when glass from his windshield exploded into his face.

The father with two special needs girls at home in Missouri holing shingles from Shreveport.

Cruising along at 62 miles an hour near the small east Texas town of the go to out of my first thought was.

My phone exploded and somehow I got the truck stop I don't.

Don't know -- to the that they how I got to stop without crashing.

But it wasn't -- -- exploding a rare and -- usual phenomenon some much weirder.

And fact balled -- wouldn't learn until after he'd been airlifted to a Plano hospital.

What really happened but looks -- medium size Burger King state trooper Bryant case responded to the scene.

I think there's no way that that happened hats off to a -- going to be.

But -- -- -- -- the big rig pieces of the Paper cup scattered with glass.

-- -- -- they are anywhere from laying on the dash.

On a stayed on the floor and even sticking on the sleeper.

Truck driver Mitch -- and was driving behind bald and stopped to help out -- -- wish everything was power would.

Incredibly -- that has no broken bones even he's amazed he wasn't blinded or worse.

-- don't want it to happen to anybody else.

In the meantime he stayed with the pastor of full circle cowboy church which doubles as -- feed store.

Looking forward to getting home to his girls what you wish it never happened.

But where it happened I couldn't have been more blessed with great people with -- little town big --