Mattress Flies Off Truck on Interstate, Nearly Hitting Driver: Watch the Video

“As they pulled into the left lane, I saw the mattress wobble and then all of a sudden, it just took off,” the bystander recalled

A driver is “thankful” to be safe after a mattress flew off a truck and narrowly missed her car while she was driving on a Texas highway.

Video captured and shared to Storyful showed the harrowing moments the mattress, which had been tied to the back of a pickup truck, flew off of it and over Tina Callahan’s car. The mattress detached as the truck changed lanes to the left side of the I-10 highway.

“As they pulled into the left lane, I saw the mattress wobble and then all of a sudden, it just took off,” Callahan recalled to CBS Austin. 

In the video, she could be seen changing lanes to the far right to try to avoid the mattress as it sailed over her car. She told the outlet that she was relieved when the item ended up avoiding colliding with her car.

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“I’m very thankful it flew past me,” she told the outlet. “I was thinking to myself, this is definitely going to hit my car and I kind of actually ducked a little bit in my seat.”

Callahan told the San Antonio Express that she did not see where the detached mattress ended up or if it hit anyone’s car. She told CBS Austin that the pickup truck that had initially been carrying the mattress kept driving for another half mile before she lost sight of the vehicle.

“It’s crazy to me that they wouldn’t secure it, even just to keep their own stuff because it’s the stuff they own,” Callahan told CBS Austin.

The San Antonio Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on this incident.

According to a AAA national study done in 2016, “more than 200,000 crashes involved debris on U.S. roadways during the past four years.” The company also noted that “road debris” has “resulted in approximately 39,000 injuries and more than 500 deaths between 2011 and 2014.”

The study also found that “nearly 37 percent of all deaths in road debris crashes resulted from the driver swerving to avoid hitting an object” and that “debris-related crashes are much more likely to occur on Interstate highways.”

Doug Shupe, spokesperson for AAA Texas, told CBS Austin that unsuccessfully securing road debris can lead to fines ranging from $25 to $500 and if a person’s debris causes serious injury, they could face jail time. 

“You know, either tie your items directly to the vehicle itself, make sure that it’s not loose and able to come undone, but then also use some type of tarp or heavy netting,” he told the outlet.

This article was originally published by People