I was driving through Ft. Worth one night. The sky was overcast with low clouds. The lights from the city lit up the cloud base really well. Had these conditions not existed, I would not have seen this.
I was approaching an overpass with a small import car in front of me. From the opposite lane, beyond the overpass, came this flying tire.
The spinning tire still had gyroscopic stability although it was veering a little to my right. Spin drift?
Anyway, it's arching path downward landed it right on top of the hood of the small car in front of me. It hit the car really hard. The car continued to move to the shoulder of the freeway.
Meanwhile the ricocheting wheel flew over me after bouncing off the car in front of me and into a ditch behind me and to my right.
I pulled up behind the other vehicle to see if the occupants needed any help.
The couple in the car were not hurt but looked like they saw a ghost. They had no idea what hit them. The looks on their faces were even more puzzling when I told them that they were hit by a flying tire.
I gave them a ride home and my contact information if their insurance agent had any questions.
A few days later I got a call from the agent. He started the conversation with, "Let me get this straight. They were hit by a flying tire. Is that correct?"
Before that a friend of mine was driving through the state of New York. He's going his merry way down the interstate when he sees a tire roll by his driver's side window. He chuckled at the idiot that lost his tire for a split second until his left rear end dropped and started scraping concrete.
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