Instead, investigators say someone threw an object through his car window as he was driving.
He suffered severe facial injuries.
It happened around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday in the area of Ogontz Avenue and Washington Lane in Philadelphia's West Oak Lane section.
The man's identity has not been released.
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