Beams pierce pickup's windows on I-405; no injuries reported

LOCAL 12's report shows California Highway Patrol photos of lumber extending through the truck's cabin in Westminster.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 50,626 views a day, 50 times a normal first day on this channel (1,003).

Wood beams from big rig smash through windows of pickup truck on interstate

LOCAL 12's freeway crash report ends with the detail that matters most: no one was hurt, despite pieces of lumber piercing a pickup's front and rear windows.

The Short shows still photographs credited to CHP Westminster, including a view of the truck's cabin with beams protruding through the glass. The crash occurred on Interstate 405 in Westminster, California.

According to the report, a truck carrying lumber stopped abruptly and its load broke loose, sending wood through the pickup's windshield and out the back window. The photographs show the vehicles beside the freeway after the collision, rather than footage of the impact itself.

The upload drew about 46,000 views within 19 hours, far beyond the Cincinnati station's usual audience for a Short. Its comment section also drew repeated questions about the title's use of "big rig," with viewers disputing that description of the load-carrying vehicle.

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The numbers

The crash report drew an unusually large audience for a LOCAL 12 Short, with comments also well above its usual first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,003

this video

50,626

subscribers

284,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

276,106,226

views per day

114,027

typical day: 138,265

the video

views

45,850

likes

64

comments

50

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

FOX6 News Milwaukee

307,000

Toronto Sun

289,000

WREG News Channel 3

287,000

LOCAL 12

284,000

WPBF 25 News

258,000

NBC10 Philadelphia

229,000

As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.