29-07-2025
Boy, 6, critically injured after huge piece of ASPHALT flew through car windshield and struck him
A six-year-old boy was critically injured on a busy Las Vegas thoroughfare when a chunk of asphalt flew off a passing vehicle and smashed into the car he was riding in.
The freak accident occurred on Monday at about 7:43am while the child was riding in the backseat of a 2017 Honda Pilot heading northbound on Durango Drive with the driver and another child inside the car, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
That's when a 'large portion of asphalt became dislodged' from a vehicle passing in the other direction, flew through the Honda's windshield and struck the boy.
Emergency responders arrived at the scene and took the child to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada with critical injuries.
Both the driver, identified as Makayla Engstrum, 34, and the second passenger, a four-year-old boy, were unharmed, police said.
Engstrum, whose relationship to the two boys is unclear, declined to comment on the horrifying ordeal when reached by the Daily Mail.
Police haven't released the names of the two boys.
The accident remains under investigation by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Collision Investigation Division.
The area was closed in both directions on Monday for the investigation.
