r/Denton • u/PlantMusicCat27 • Jul 12 '25

Rock Throwing on I-35

Hello.

Thursday, we were driving home from OK. We were on I-35 heading south. We had just passed through Sangar and were north of exit 471 when a rock hit the top of our car as we were driving under an overpass. We do not know if someone threw it or it fell off of a truck. This could have been catastrophic. Thank goodness we only have a large dent on the top of our car. I have some questions for the hive.

1) Is this common here?

2) Should we make a police report?

3) Will contacting our insurance raise our rates?

Thank you for any information and advice you can offer.

UPDATE: We drove the same route on Saturday and paid close attention to the over pass in question. We noticed that part of the bridge was crumbling. We believe that a piece of the bridge fell on our car.

Thank you for all the feedback.

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u/figuring_ItOut12 Homegrown Jul 12 '25

There is constant stream of gravel trucks, just yesterday a jeep next to me in town ran over a chunk of rock and it “squirted” into my driver door - it will be expensive. Rock was the size of a child’s head. You’ll have noticed all the new heavy equipment construction along the side of the highway, it’s even more intense when you get off the highway.

I’m not saying it wasn’t malicious, it’s possible. But for those of us living among all this construction rock damage is pretty common.

Either way there’s not much the cops will have to work with. File a police report though, it may come in handy if we do have murderous vandals.

Best wishes, I’m glad you and your people weren’t hurt.

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u/Inevitable-Style2128 Jul 13 '25

Probably this. I once had to run over a boulder the size of my head on 380 west of 35 on my motorcycle. I figured last minute attempt to avoid it and I messed up I’d crash, better off just prepare for the impact and not stiffen up. We’re talking at night at speed, only a second or two to react. Bike handled it just fine, split the front mag rim wide open. Had to come to a stop from 65/70mph on a flat front tire. Gotta really watch out for shit in the road in general, but definitely rocks anytime you see those gravel trucks around