Multiple vehicles strike object on highway. Front and rear dashcam footage.

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Front and rear dashcam footage captures multiple vehicles striking object on highway.
Highway driving heading West on Route 72 in Plainville CT. Dashcam captures the moment an object is run over while driving at highway speeds. Multiple vehicles will run it over before it is finished.
You can see the white car in front barely avoids it but does in fact run it over. Only to be deflected and is in the path of the dashcam vehicle. Driver tries to avoid it but it is too late and ends up running it over in a plume of dust and debris and flings it back for the next car to dodge. The rear view camera captures that as well. Luckily the car behind the dashcam avoids it and hopefully the cars behind him too. The outcome after that is unknown to the driver.
The unidentified object now has turned into an accident looking for a place to happen. After avoiding the road hazard, the dashcam driver continues to head further down the highway and sees some more of the same unidentified object on the side of the road. A little further ahead he sees what he thinks is the offending truck. As driver gets closer to the truck it is evident that it is in fact the vehicle judging by the contents loaded up and piled high in the back. The driver makes an attempts to get the truck driver's attention by honking the horn and waiving. Including pointing and gesturing towards the back of the truck as dashcam owner drives by. At this point it is a highway split and you can see the rear camera footage of this as the two vehicles part ways. Dashcam went left and truck went right. It was apparent that the truck driver probably had no idea what was going on behind him. Hopefully everything ended well for the other commuters on this busy stretch of highway.

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