his sobbing 11-year-old daughter.
eulogize : 頌揚
mournful : 憂傷的
poignant : 辛酸的
sobbing : 哭泣著的
debris : 碎片, 殘骸
crash : 碰撞
The Queen Elizabeth Way has been fully reopened after a 54-year-old Simcoe man was struck and killed by a piece of scrap metal that
flew through his windshield this afternoon in the eastbound lanes, near the Hwy. 427 overpass.
"The million-dollar question is where did it come from," said OPP Staff-Sgt. Dave Woodford at the scene, just south of Sherway Gardens mall.
The million-dollar question : 最重要、最難回答的問題
"It's five-eighths inches thick - about the size of a licence plate but thicker." He added that, at highway speeds,
the debris would have been flying "like a bullet."
The metal struck the man in the head at 1:10 p.m., making a basketball-sized hole
in his windshield. The beige Oldsmobile continued along the left shoulder guardrail.
beige : 米黃色
guardrail : 護欄, 高速公路上的防撞欄.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. At 6 p.m., as the investigation continued, his body remained in the vehicle,
which is surrounded by a police tent.
Police closed the eastbound QEW lanes into Toronto just beyond the Hwy. 427 overpass, creating long delays for rush-hour drivers.
The left shoulder and left lane of the westbound QEW was also closed from Hwy. 427 to Evans Ave.
Woodford said investigators believe the projectile - which is not part of a vehicle - may have fallen off a truck carrying scrap metal or
may have been kicked up from the highway by passing traffic. They have ruled out the possibility that somebody threw it from an overpass.
projectile : 拋射體(被拋射物)
overpass : 高架道
Investigators are canvassing nearby scrap-metal businesses, hoping to find the source of the deadly debris.
The driver's identity has not yet been released.