MOUNTAIN HOME (KIVI TV) — A routine grocery trip turned frightening for a Mountain Home family when a rock flew through their car window, covering their 5-month-old daughter with broken glass during chip sealing work on State Highway 67.

Connor Widmer and his wife, both Air Force base employees, immediately pulled over to check on their daughter.

“She was screaming and crying, just frightened because it was a loud thud and she didn’t know what hit her,” Widmer said.

Fortunately, a sunshade in the car protected Athena from serious injury, leaving her with only minor scratches.

“I have it in there to keep the sun out of her eyes. I’m worried that it would have ended up hitting her in the head and hurting her,” Widmer said.

The Idaho Department of Transportation said chip sealing is a co

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