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[Renze]

Those front wheel drive Escorts were tiny cars, esp a 2 dr.

My brother in law had one when he dated my oldest sister.

And a neighbour has one, an 87 1.3 three door swapped with a 2 liter Blacktop engine from a Mondeo. 135hp is pretty wild for an 800kg car.

 

[Jstpssng]

Read a news article from the weekend where a semi lost a set of duals on the interstate near metro Minneapolis and the duals struck another vehicle (Nissan Rogue) and killed two people in it. Not really much more info than that being published so isn't really worth linking to the article. But, damn, that would be a sucky way to go

A state trooper was killed a few years ago when that happened. He had pulled over to help a stranded motorist.

Maine state trooper killed after being struck by detached wheel on interstate, officials say

A Maine state police trooper on the scene of a disabled car died on Wednesday after he was hit with a stray truck wheel, officials said.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Grumpycat]

Read a news article from the weekend where a semi lost a set of duals on the interstate near metro Minneapolis and the duals struck another vehicle (Nissan Rogue) and killed two people in it. Not really much more info than that being published so isn't really worth linking to the article. But, damn, that would be a sucky way to go.

I was beside a semi on I-65 who had a right rear drive tire blow on his tractor. Rubber flew everywhere around my car. We pulled over. Looked at his truck. Looked at my car. Couldn't find any damage to my car. I didn't hear anything hit, just rubber flying over my hood. Shook hands and I went on my way.

 

[4570Man]

Read a news article from the weekend where a semi lost a set of duals on the interstate near metro Minneapolis and the duals struck another vehicle (Nissan Rogue) and killed two people in it. Not really much more info than that being published so isn't really worth linking to the article. But, damn, that would be a sucky way to go.

Loose tires are extremely dangerous especially when they start bouncing.

 

[Eric_Phillips]

Driving in to work this morning in the dark on a divided highway I noticed yellow flashing lights every once in a while up in the distance. Traffic kept flowing so didn't think too much about it, I figured what ever it was took an exit. Then I noticed a pickup going backwards down the road with no lights. Then noticed it was hooked to a tow truck. The pickup blocked all the flashing lights of the tow truck and you could not see it until you got close.

 

[orezok]

A number of years ago a friend of mine was following a semi on a San Diego freeway. The entire rear axle departed the semi. The axle and wheels bounced on the road in front of him and completely cleared his car and creamed the car behind him. He didn’t see the result of the hit as he was trying to avoid the swerving semi.

 

[Yogi05]

I follow an Ontario Provincial Police Carrier enforcement officer on twitter. He posts pictures of
what he sees on commercial vehicles he stops.
Frightening stuff on some of them.

 

[California]

No time for a photo, but today at the merge point of two freeways I saw a CHP officer, flashing lights on, parked behind and protecting a small junk trailer. As we got closer it was obvious the hub and wheel had come off the trailer leaving just the stub axle. Somebody forgot the cotter pin?

Seemed to me the only way to get the pickup and trailer to a safe place would be to just order the pickup to drag the trailer as-is to the shoulder beyond the merge, because getting a wrecker in there and hooked up with a dolly would disrupt traffic and likely cause crashes.

 

[Renze]

As we got closer it was obvious the hub and wheel had come off the trailer leaving just the stub axle. Somebody forgot the cotter pin?

Over here, its mostly grossly overloaded, poorly maintained single axle trailers without brakes, light nor tag that gets overloaded by folks that have absolutely no clue what dirt weighs, untill they bust a wheel bearing.
Then they turn out to weigh twice the 1500 pounds they are allowed on a trailer without tag nor brakes, so they end up in court because overloading twice is an economical offence...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Around here they don’t care about disrupt traffic. They will shut down a road and let you sit there for hours until they get a tow truck to clear the road.