Runaway Tire!

[CoastlineDJ]

I was on my way to Wilmington this morning and was meeting a mobile home coming toward me. All of a sudden a tire came off the mobile home and was coming toward me. I swerved to avoid it with my truck but, it got my trailer.

 

[Jstpssng]

That stinks, but at least nobody was hurt. Runaway tires can roll a long ways!
Did they even bother to stop, or just keep on trucking? They may not even have known that they lost it.

 

[Thomas]

Dang... glad your all right.

 

[Deere Dude]

I was on my way to Wilmington this morning and was meeting a mobile home coming toward me. All of a sudden a tire came off the mobile home and was coming toward me. I swerved to avoid it with my truck but, it got my trailer. View attachment 594165

It looks like it bent the axle too, or am I seeing things? Glad it did't hit your truck.

 

[two_bit_score]

Bet that scared the crap out of you. It would have me.

TBS

 

[rhunt]

You sir are a very lucky man!! Bob

 

[CoastlineDJ]

It did bend the axle. The whole frame appears to be out of square.

 

[Redbug]

If the frame is out of square, axle bent, needs tire and fender...then I think insurance would say a new trailer. I bet that that made a boom when it hit. Another foot and it would have missed the trailer and done real damage and injury to whoever was behind you.

 

[fried1765]

I was on my way to Wilmington this morning and was meeting a mobile home coming toward me. All of a sudden a tire came off the mobile home and was coming toward me. I swerved to avoid it with my truck but, it got my trailer. View attachment 594165

I once had a wheel come off my tandem boat trailer.
Don't know why, but suspect someone was trying to steal a wheel, ( while trailer was parked-empty) removed the nuts, and could not get the wheel off.
I was driving along,(with 5000# boat aboard) and in my rear view mirror, noticed a loose wheel coming down a hill, as I was going down the same hill.
Mentioned to my wife that someone must have lost a wheel.
Wheel was accelerating, and actually passed me as I began to slow, to pull over and inspect my trailer.
After wheel passed me, it hit the curb on a traffic island, bounced 10' in the air, and came to rest in the middle of the traffic island.
Stopped and checked my trailer.
Yup.....the wheel was mine.

 

[Deere Dude]

I had a boat trailer converted to a flatbed for general use. I hauled 20 bags of Portland cement from a Menards store 30 miles away. A few miles from home I noticed the left wheel break off so I slowed. It rolled between the truck and the trailer. I started to ease down to keep the wheel from hitting the truck and to not get under the trailer. I must have judged wrongly because all of a sudden the left of the trailer jumped up as the wheel rode under the axle and every concrete bag jumped out of the trailer into the ditch.

I saved most of the bags then another two miles down the road the other wheel broke off but I was going slower. Then I got another trailer to haul the cement home.