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Brazilian Man's Head Fractured After Being Hit by Runaway Tire
Jun 2, 2017 18:24:21   #
bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL
 
http://www.vladtv.com/article/225180/brazilian-mans-head-fractured-after-being-hit-in-the-head-by-runaway-tire

This brings to mind an incident that happened to me back in 1973. I was driving an International Travelall on the highway heading from Carmel to Monterrey in California when my spare tire broke loose from under the truck and then proceeded to bounce down the highway, gathering speed after each bounce, bounced over the highway divider into oncoming traffic and completely demolished the front of a Volvo station wagon. Lucky it hit on the down bounce so that it didn't hit the windshield on an up bounce! Fortunately there were no injuries.

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Jun 5, 2017 20:54:59   #
strobe Loc: Central Iowa
 
A few years ago on vacation a young couple on a motor cycle passed us. I was trotting along at the speed limit, and they weren't even close to it. The motor cycle was pulling a small 2 wheeled trailer with what I assume to be camping gear. About half an hour later I found the motor cycle on the shoulder and the trailer had only 1 wheel on it. A quarter mile farther up the road I found the two of them walking, one on each side of the median, still looking for the wheel that had come off.

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Jun 5, 2017 21:47:10   #
bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL
 
strobe wrote:
A few years ago on vacation a young couple on a motor cycle passed us. I was trotting along at the speed limit, and they weren't even close to it. The motor cycle was pulling a small 2 wheeled trailer with what I assume to be camping gear. About half an hour later I found the motor cycle on the shoulder and the trailer had only 1 wheel on it. A quarter mile farther up the road I found the two of them walking, one on each side of the median, still looking for the wheel that had come off.


Bummer.

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