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Originally Posted by cdcox
I was driving just outside of Nashville today on I-40 and a tire and wheel came bouncing across the divider from the other direction heading our way. I was in the second lane from the left. It cleared the left lane and made it to my lane. I was hoping it would keep on going but alas, it decided to stay in my lane. Heading right for us like it had our name on it. The left lane was blocked and I was unsure of the right lane, and remembered the advice from Planeteer's about hitting the deer. So I held steady, slowed down as much as I could and rammed it. Unfortunately I was driving my wife's cousin new Sequoya. Crunch goes the front end. I also managed to propel the tire forward where a Honda Civic ran into it and knocked out her radiator. Luckily no one was hurt.
How the heck does a tire and wheel come across the barrier wall of an Interstate? I didn't notice any huge wreck in the other side or anything. Maybe it fell off a truck. It was a fairly new tire and the wheel was off (ironically) another small Honda.
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I got my brakes replaced for free by the students in shop class, at the HS I graduated from. That was the deal. If you did work on cars while you were in shop class, you could have minor work done on your car anytime you wanted after you graduated.
Anyhow, they forgot(I hope) to tighten the lugs tight enough.
My wheel came off at about 65 on a back road in TN.
The wheel went off the road, into a ditch, out of the ditch, through a harvested cornfield, over a large hill, and took out one of the columns of a covered car port, on a house around the bend up the road about a 1/4 mile, that I couldn't even see. Supposedly, there was a redneck cpl sitting in lawn chairs about 10 yards from the column when it happened. They said they saw the wheel come screaming over the hill, and through their column. I'll bet that was a trip. lmoa.