What Toronto Drivers Don't Notice Until It's Too Late: Windshield Damage During Construction Season
That sequence — the ignored chip, the creeping crack, the expensive surprise — plays out for a surprising number of Toronto drivers every spring and summer. Construction season amplifies the debris problem across the GTA's major routes, but the real issue isn't the roads. It's the way most drivers respond to the damage, which is to say, not at all. The moment most drivers miss Picture the southbound DVP on a Tuesday morning. Traffic has compressed into two lanes, you're three car lengths behind a flatbed, and somewhere in the road grit ahead, a small stone catches a tire tread and launches. The impact on your windshield is brief — a light crack, maybe nothing — and you're already focused on the merge ahead. You don't pull over. You don't even look closely. This is how most chips happen and how almost all of them get ignored. The impact is fast and the damage, at least initially, looks minor. A small star-shaped chip or a half-moon ding on the outer glass la...