‘Buy a lottery ticket’: Horror moment tow bar flies into car on freeway in SA

Terrifying footage has captured the moment an object flew into a woman’s windscreen while she was driving on a freeway.

A woman is lucky to be alive after a horror incident in which a tow bar smash into her car’s windscreen.

The shocking moment happened on the South Eastern Freeway in South Australia on Thursday.

Dashcam footage, which has since been shared online, shows the car driving along the freeway when suddenly a tow bar came off the vehicle in front.

The tow bar firstly flung through the air before bouncing on the road, setting it on a trajectory to the woman’s windscreen.

The towbar fell off the car in front of her, and rebounded off the road. Source: dashcam Owners Australia.

Luckily, the towbar appeared to land in the empty passenger seat.

The footage, which has since been shared to the dashcam Owners Australia Facebook page, stunned people online.

Some users spoke of how lucky the woman was to avoid serious injury: “I know someone that has a serious acquired brain injury from an accident just like this. Think before you drive off, things like this change people's lives forever,” they wrote.

Footage shows the woman’s entire windscreen smashed by the towbar. Source: dashcam Owners Australia.

“I once had to attend an accident scene for this exact situation. Sadly it penetrated the windscreen and killed the young woman driving. Wrong place, wrong time,” another said.

Another remarked the woman should buy a lottery ticket.

“Go get yourself a lottery ticket. You are so lucky to walk away from that,” they said.

But the footage also sparked heated discussion about the use of towbars in Australia. Currently, laws across the country do not state that tow hitches need to be removed when not towing.