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OK, nobody else wants to point out the guy that runs for the tire?

Coworker and her husband were on I-75 south of Lexington, KY traveling at interstate speed in a full size pickup truck. Trailer tire and wheel from oncoming traffic jumped the divider and center punched their windshield and leading edge of their roof. Mashed the roof down into the seat between them. No injuries. Only covered in glass. If there had been a third passenger, or if the tire had landed 20" left or right...

I have a brother in Houston. He was driving down the freeway to work at a law firm downtown, and the truck in front of him lost a couple of boxes.

One hit the front of his pickup, and the other went through his windshield on the passenger side.

Both boxes had big aluminum alloy wheels in them.

Truck never stopped.

He called me as he was waiting for the wrecker. I told him to get the wheels and call the manufacturer with the serial numbers, and they could trace it to the distributor.

He told me a car load of black dudes stopped and took the wheels before he could even walk around his pickup.

You can say THAT again!!! Yowza!!

The odds on that happening are astronomical..

I wondered about that, too. Souvenir or evidence for the trial?

Damn; makes my head hurt just by watching it.

Looks to me like the odds were pretty good.

Wrong place at the wrong time.

Sometimes you just can't win even when you are minding your own business.

I wonder how it was explained in the emergency room?

had a 16 inch spare come off from under a Ford 3/4 ton PU i was driving down hwy 41 in Cali a lifetime ago. it flipped the back end of the PU pretty good and i watched in the Rear view mirror as it bounced twice and headed for the front windshield of a Mercedes behind me that was full of college girls. it cleared the top of that car by maybe 2 inches and went into the ditch. still gives me nightmares 50 years later thinking of what it would have done going through that car.

Moving back to Chicago from downstate years ago, my pickup had been making a weird noise for the entire 500 mile trip. I thought it was a driveline noise and had been under the truck repeatedly during the trip looking for the noise.

I made it to Chicago, emptied the heavily loaded truck and trailer and returned downstate. My buddy had followed along driving my car and I took him home to his country hideaway. Leaving his house on his rutted road my front left wheel broke loose and hit me in the elbow so hard I socked myself in the face with my arm.

God must have been looking out for me because if that front wheel had broken off at interstate speed with that trailer and all that weight I think it would have killed me.

Years ago, the teenage son of a family friend and his girl friend were driving a Jeep up what was then called the Fairview Hill in Boise. A truck coming down lost a set of duals. It dead centered the windshield of the Jeep and killed them both.

The magic BB strikes again!

My old man was coming home from bowling 8-10 years ago. It's probably 11 pm, he was about 1/2 mile from the house and met a semi and seen something "glowing" come out from under it. Just clipped it with his bumper, left a ding, bout it. I was coming home from work the next day and see this big black chunk on the shoulder. I turn around and wheel onto the shoulder and grab it. About a 50# piece of brake drum. I damn near crapped myself thinking about what could have happened. Went home and then went down to dads, showed it to him, his eyes got a little wide n he sorta went "hmm". Like no big deal.

Most of the big trucks have oil lubed bearings. They work great as long as you don't lose a seal and the oil. When that happens, the bearings, drums, etc. get REALLY hot and come apart at high speed.

Had a wheel come off of the bus I was riding in Wyoming. Lug bolts - which had been replaced the day before - all sheared. We heard a noise and looked out the window to see the wheel glance off a brand new dodge diesel and then bounce up and take out a big highway sign. Leveled it.

Responding officer said that he sees it from time to time, and it's usually the result of a repair shop using lug bolts not hardened to DOT requirement. Shop in question told us, when we took the bus in with a couple broken lugs, that DOT says "replace one - replace 'em all", so that makes sense. Now, all the bolts were too soft.

A bit off topic, but I was on a motorcycle behind a half ton pick up one day,..both of us doing about 75, when a 4X8 sheet of half inch plywood came sailing up out of the bed of the truck. It gained about 20' of altitude a lot quicker than you would expect and just slowly spun there for a second before it started coming back down in a haphazard manner,..flitting left and then right while still moving somewhat forward.

For me, it was impossible to judge whether to speed up, slow down, or swerve in either direction.

My mind was still trying to process what to do when I passed under it.

I've had to dodge other obstacles when on a motorcycle, but that flying sheet of plywood takes the cake.

The man's wife, stunned by events, said "It is really too bad, he was having a Goodyear up until this happened".

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You beat me to it. He couldn't give a schit about the guy almost getting killed. He just wanted to catch that tire.

If he lived, it might be GOOD LUCK.