By Gary Meyer, TME, with reporting by Marcy Axness

When Fort Tejon CHP Officer D.C. Williams was asked about reports of rock-throwing vandalism on Frazier Mountain Park Road in Frazier Park, he said, “We’re looking into that, but don’t have any leads. We wish we did.”

Pine Mountain Club resident Izumi Tanaka said she was driving Frazier Mountain Park Road into Frazier Park at the crack of dawn on Tuesday, Jan. 18. She said she had just passed the western intersection with Mt. Pinos Way when “a large object flew down and hit my windshield.”

Tanaka said, “I saw a dark object in [my] peripheral vision coming from the north side of the road, but had no idea what it was. I knew it wasn’t a bird. It was still dark, and I didn’t want to stop, so kept driving.”

As she came to a stop at Monterey Trail, it had become light enough to see the severe damage to her…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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A rock hit Izumi Tanaka’s car windshield in Frazier Park on January 18 as she was driving east from the first Mt. Pinos Way intersection at dawn.

Glass shards cover the dashboard of Izumi Tanaka’s car after a rock hit her windshield from the north side of Frazier Mountain Park Road just east of the western end of Mt. Pinos Way.

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