In an extremely close call, a driver and three passengers of a car in Thane, Maharashtra were left unhurt in an horrific incident on Monday. An iron rod slipped from a worker's hand and pierced through a car missing the driver of the vehicle by just a few inches. No one was injured in the incident, officials said.

According to police sources, the incident took place on Monday morning at around 10:15 am, when an Eco car was passing below a bridge near Bharat Petrol Pump at Teen Hath Naka in Thane (west). A rod allegedly slipped from a worker's hand and pierced through the roof of the vehicle. The rod nearly missed the driver and the passengers in the car. At the time of the incident, there were three passengers in the car. The impact of the rod that fell on the car was such that the rod pierced through the roof and missed the driver by only a few inches.