A couple weeks back I was on my way home from work going down Deerfoot and all of a sudden, WHAM! I have a windshield in my face and I can't see a damn thing. Scared the living shit out of me but I was lucky enough that there were no cars around so I could look out the passenger window to determine where to pull over.

Windshield

So the hood flew into your windshield. Gave you a shock. So you drove ace ventura style

damn dude that sucks!

i was down in the south, opened up my hood(not fully just released it with the latch) and then someone interrupted me i totally forgot about the hood! drove home on deerfoot for about 10min before i realized it was open.

Stupid mistake that could have cost me my life in the end.

Hope you escaped uninjured from ur vehicle!

Yeah I consider myself lucky for not being on Deerfoot when it was congested.

holy crap....I remember that happening to a member on here a while back, good thing that didn't shatter the windshield into your face......

Yah it scares the hell out of me... it happened once to myself and a buddy.. jamming through a residential area in his dad's 911 (we were 16). Scared the hell out of us... almost ditched the car into a house.

Windshields are made specially so that they don't shatter in the event of an impact

That would scare me like crazy.

Where have you been for the last ooo 90 years? Front windshields do not shatter like a house window. They crack and take an impact.

Side windows shatter into a million pieces but usually cause no harm.

Happened to me last summer on deerfoot too. What pissed me off was that i just bought the car and owned it for about five minutes. The previous owner also replace the windshield before he sold it to me.

I used to always laugh at the little sticker near the hood latch that says to oil it every year. Lately, my latch has been somewhat "sticky" with its cable release and I have to manually push the cable release out of the way just to close the hood. Still kinda sketchy sometimes though and I really hope something like this doesn't happen to me one day - especially since I travel between Calgary and Saskatoon almost once a month!

I had a 540i do it to me.

The BMW emblem went THROUGH the sunroof, I had a glass shower...

It was fucking terrifying.

No way?!

Just because they dont shatter doesn't mean they dont spit slivers of glass in your face/eyes.

Welcome to the club. Wow, hood latch failure seems quite common among beyond users. I had my hood fly up and smash my windshield on Deerfoot last October.

Looks like you got lucky and the hood didn't smash your sunroof too. Mine wrapped around and smacked my sunroof creating a crazy glass shower. At first I thought I was dead suddenly, things just didn't make sense. Driving along and BANG!!!! and all I see is black (I have a black car).

That happened to my friend and I in his truck after he had some stereo work done, they forgot to lock the hood and WHAM! We veered off too the side of the road and stopped, a cop behind us saw it happen too, he came and checked on us but aside from almost pissing my pants we were good.

holy fack.... I should check my hood latches

Happened to me many years ago. The single most terrifying moment of my life. I was heading westbound on Crowchild just past Shaganappi and BANG. It took me a couple of seconds to figure out what was going on. Thankfully I was the only car on the road as well or it would have definitely been a lot worse.

....and don't it make my blue seat brown.....lol