This pole entered through the windshield on the passenger side...

...and exited through the rear side window on the driver's side.
The passenger was struck by the pole, but, luckily, did not lose consciousness and did not have any broken bones.
Australian researchers at the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research were investigating how the protein beta-catenin invades a cell’s nucleus and causes it to become cancerous, when they spotted the protein apparently mocking them.