Originally Posted by bobolinko
Sometimes Following a car TOO CLOSELY causes one to run into debris kicked up by the car in front. Stay behind by 2 seconds for every 10 MPH you're travelling and you'll have enough reaction time to avoid such mishaps, and no one gets hurt or has to suffer any losses. Too late now, but hard lesson learned for all of us. Good Thing nobody got hurt by that steel rod flying !!!
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I was further away than that, if I was as close as your saying (10 seconds behind him) the rod would have been through my windshield... The issue was that he saw the debris and chose not to avoid it, while I couldnt see through the Audi to see debris in the road in order to anticipate anything flying up...
BTW, I was able to do some of my own repairs to the bumper, Its currently in primer, hopefully will have paint on it soon...