77-year-old Janitor Hit by Truck Tyre Smashing into a Building

**kellyhound** · #1 ● 12-21-2014, 10:30 AM

Houston -
A 77-year-old janitor counts himself lucky to be alive after a truck tyre smashed through the window of a medical clinic where he was working and struck him.

Manuel Mendoza told through an interpreter, "It was sort of like an explosion."

Mendoza and his wife were cleaning the 45 Clinic at around 10:45 p.m. Mendoza was moving a chair in the waiting room when security video shows the tyre smashing through the window, pushing the chair in his hands aside and knocking Mendoza to the floor. He stayed there for several minutes, apparently dazed.

Mendoza was taken to Hospital and treated for cuts and bruises, but he was found to have no major injuries.

The tyre, which was still attached to a brake drum, apparently came off a truck traveling inbound on the Gulf Freeway.

It rolled across the freeway and feeder road and into the clinic's parking lot where a second security camera shows it smashing into the window.

The clinic's owner just happened to be passing the clinic that night on his way to the airport when he noticed the ambulance in front of his clinic and stopped to investigate.

"The man is very lucky. I'm so glad that he's OK," he said.

He believes more than luck was involved in Mendoza's survival.

"I believe, probably because Christmas, God was here. This is what I believe because this is a miracle," he said.