A driver is okay, but shaken up after an object was thrown at his windshield along Dodge Street early Saturday morning.

Twenty-one-year-old Patrick O'Neill was headed home from packing up his girlfriend's dorm room around 1:15 a.m. when it happened. "It sounded like a Black Cat Firecracker just exploded in my face." He had noticed two young people in the road. "Wearing white hoodies and blue jeans, so I moved away a little bit and then, that's when I heard the loud noise. I was close to them, probably about 10 feet away from them. I didn't know what was going on. It took me about 20 seconds to figure it out. I saw the mess on my windshield and started to freak out. I reversed, went back, tried to find what they threw. Couldn't find it, but my only guess is it had to be something big."

Patrick and his mother reported the break to police. Looking at it in the daylight, Patrick said he's simply thankful it didn't go through. "It was probably about six inches away from where my head would have been." Unfortunately for the O'Neills, the cost of paying for the new windshield is less than their insurance deductible, so they will be paying the entire bill. Patrick's mom, Susie O'Neill, said she's just glad her son wasn't hurt.