A bridge fragment pierced the pickup truck during a remote logging road collision.
On January 10, after working a long night shift, Michael Roy and a coworker got into his pickup truck and began the lengthy drive home.
It might have been his last ride.
About halfway through the drive, Roy reported that his steering started to give way as they approached a steep turn over a bridge.
Roy, 32, would frequently drive the 100 kilometers from his home in Saint-Quentin to the job site in Plaster Rock via a rural logging road.
The lonely forest path, called the West Tobique Wood Road in the area, was heavily covered in snow.
“We didn’t see much and we didn’t go fast,” said Roy.
He claimed that as soon as his truck slid through the bridge and into a ditch, he lost control of the wheel and applied the brakes.
Roy turned to his coworker following the collision.
“I told him I’m happy to be alive, and he didn’t know why.”
When Roy instructed him to switch on his flashlight, the crash scene became visible.
Roy’s seat was pierced by a thick wooden beam that had come through the truck’s front body, the cabin, and the seat itself.
Roy claimed it even tore his pants. “When it entered the truck, it hit my seat just enough to lift me a little bit,” Roy recalled.
“I’m glad that it wasn’t an inch over because I would not be here to talk with you.”
He claimed that neither he nor his coworker could believe Roy was still alive; they both left the scene unharmed.
