GREENFIELD — Driving home from work in her Toyota RAV 4, Wendy Dellert of Colrain was starting up the Mohawk Trail, just beyond the Home Depot plaza, when she spotted what she first thought was a low-flying bird.
But the airborne object was a battery pack from a cordless tool and it was hurtling straight for her windshield.
Dellert instinctively shielded her eyes, which was a good thing, because she was covered in glass shards when the battery pack crashed through the windshield, landing on the dashboard, just above the steering wheel, Thursday afternoon.
“My husband thinks I might have put my arm up, to shield my face, because I had a lot of glass in my right forearm,” she said.
“It was like something out of a movie,” Dellert said an hour or so later. “Luckily I closed my eyes, so I didn’t get glass in my eyes. I had glass all over me. I’m OK. I was alone in the car. Thank goodness I didn’t have my little girl with me.”
“I felt very well taken care of by the ambulance, police and fire (personnel). Five or six people around me with (adhesive tape) were trying to get the glass off me,” she said. “I’m so glad it didn’t hit me. It was coming right at my face.”
Dellert’s vehicle was towed and a friend gave her a ride home. Dellert says she doesn’t know where the battery pack may have come from, although she thinks it could have fallen off the roof of another vehicle or perhaps had been lying in the road and was hit by another motorist.
“It will be a good story — someday,” she said.