Toughened Screens - Don't you love em...
Had a stone shatter the toughened screen in the RS driving to work about 5 years ago and luckily I was wearing sunnys as there were small glass fragments inside of my shirt when I got out to clean out the undies... Without the glasses on I would have had small glass fragments in my eyes.. As it was it was an hour or so before I worked out why I was all itchy on the chest (small glass fragments irritate the skin apparently..)
Sounds great doesn't it - BIG bang then virtually no vision straight after...
I go for a new laminated screen every time now. Even if you find a toughened one really cheap, don't go there...
Laminated like all new cars have will crack in the vicinity of the strike, but will not craze. My Council Mondeo got a small rock through the screen only 3 days ago and all it has done is a large broken circle nd then 2 large cracks radiating up the screen... Neither myself or the other driver of the car that day noticed even when it happened. (With a toughened screen it sounds like someone just unloaded a shotty in the car and painted the windscreen all at once...