When concrete rains down on your car

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At 6 a.m. on May 7, John Toledo was driving home from his job at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection when debris from the concrete roof of an overpass suddenly fell in front of his car, blowing out a tire.

Toledo posted dashcam video of the falling material on Reddit, and told Gothamist, “If I would have been one or two more seconds further forward, instead of that piece of concrete hitting the front of the car, it could have come through the windshield, and I wouldn’t be speaking to you.” (Officials said it wasn’t falling concrete, but lighter material and dust.)

Six days later, actual falling concrete injured a driver on the same road, the Trans- Manhattan Expressway, which connects the Cross Bronx Expressway to the George Washington Bridge. The driver was taken to a hospital. According to the New York Times, Port Authority officials are planning a project to “fortify the overpasses.”

The two expressways are among the most heavily trafficked roads in the country. D…