Driving down the road and (Boom) through no fault of your own bad luck attacks

Some of the video where weird things happen to drivers are all over youtube... Russian drivers seem to make some quite good mishap videos due to everyone having a dash cam, however there are others who run a close second or tie for first.

The following video is on a California highway and the unsuspecting driver has no idea what is about to happen to their car..

I can not see anyway the driver could have avoided this outcome..www.foxla.com...

Amazing !

originally posted by: 727Sky
Some of the video where weird things happen to drivers are all over youtube... Russian drivers seem to make some quite good mishap videos due to everyone having a dash cam, however there are others who run a close second or tie for first.

The following video is on a California highway and the unsuspecting driver has no idea what is about to happen to their car..

I can not see anyway the driver could have avoided this outcome..www.foxla.com...

Amazing !

Good thing is no one got hurt.

And the tire attacked again. Bad, bad tire!! Lots of lawyer work for this.

this is, of course, the fault of the truck with the wheels installed incorrectly.

Those tires look a *bit* wide for that truck, but I guess some people are into that thing... looks like it has wheel spacers to move the wheels further away from the hubs, which just makes all sorts of problems.
Can't tell by watching if the spacer itself failed or if the wheel bearing failed because of the spacer...

Either way, sucks to be everyone else on the road around that person!

Went on a trip to a horse show decades ago when I was 9, and remember telling my Dad that a tire just passed us on the freeway. The tire took a bounce and went flying up and bounced then went really high and flew over the median and in the air across the other lanes and over the fence missing all the cars.

It was a wheel from the horse trailer... Very lucky no one got hurt. Poor dad got a ticket of some sort for that wheel coming off.

People are only as safe as they make themselves and their vehicles.

a reply to: 727Sky

and to add insult to injury, the wheel came up and hit them one more time in the ass.

a reply to: mikell

And the tire attacked again. Bad, bad tire!! Lots of lawyer work for this

damn beat to the draw again.

originally posted by: mikell
And the tire attacked again. Bad, bad tire!!

Reminded me of this:

I had a crazy one taxi driving. Picked up some lads to go to a shop, when we arrived he got out and started talking to a young girl, at that moment 5 balaclava'd lads ran out from behind the shop chasing my passenger. He quickly got back in the car and we 'dukes of hazard' style drove off with bottles bouncing off of the side of the car. Dropped the lad off and went to the office for a brew and a ciggy to calm my nerves a bit. As it was all quiet, i thought might as well go home. Got in the car, started it, put it in gear, started reversing and the engine dies. The accelerator cable had snapped. I dread to think what would of happened if that had happened half an hour before.

originally posted by: lordcomac
this is, of course, the fault of the truck with the wheels installed incorrectly.

Those tires look a *bit* wide for that truck, but I guess some people are into that thing... looks like it has wheel spacers to move the wheels further away from the hubs, which just makes all sorts of problems.
Can't tell by watching if the spacer itself failed or if the wheel bearing failed because of the spacer...

Either way, sucks to be everyone else on the road around that person!

I've seen wheels come off like that before. One was because of a wheel bearing failing and the other was because the tire shop forgot to tighten the lug nuts.

Overtightening the lug nuts can cause this as well. Some of these shops (Pep Boys) put the lugs on with impact guns. The stud can stretch and eventually fail. If all of them are overtightened, one failing can lead to a chain reaction of all of them failing. If I'm the truck driver and I can show a receipt for new tires or brake work within the past few days, I'm going to be part owner of a tire shop or garage. My partner is going to be the guy that just went end over end.

a reply to: JIMC5499

nothing worse than having to call somebody because you can't get the frickin lug nuts off when you have a flat. one vehicle i own it's not a problem because i carry a fairly well stocked tool box in, my old service truck.

the first thing i do when i get home from getting new tires is break out my 3/4 in pull bar, extension, and 7/8's deep well socket and loosen and retighten them properly. some folks say use a torque wrench, i just turn them any where from half a turn to a full turn depending on how hard they were to break loose.

you can tell that most if not all tire stores don't give a rat's ass about how tight they tighten the lug nuts by the sound of of the impact when running them down. once it hits a stopping point you keep on hearing the impact pounding away a lot longer than the torque require to tighten them.

Physics.

There is a motorcycle video like this. It is one of those group rides with the douche bags on sport bikes and ATVs popping wheelies. Some guy is popping wheelies on his ATV on the highway. From behind him comes a sport bike speeding through the group.

When the ATV drops his wheelie he kind of swerves a tad and right into the path of the speeding sport bike who couldn't slow down in time. The sport bike hits the rear wheel of the already moving ATV. The momentum from the ATV's spinning wheel acts like a some sort of launcher (think how a one of those baseball pitching machines work). It literally throws the sport bike and the rider like 30 feet in the air. Complete freak accident.

Fortunately, the sport bike rider only sustained a broken ankle I believe and other minor injuries.

Sure it is on youtube somewhere but I couldn't find it.

a reply to: 727Sky

Closer view, you can see the front left tire come off, looked like the rear tire on the first video.
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My rear end was sucking up fabric watching this.

a reply to: 727Sky

I have a Kia Soul, maybe a year or two newer than that one.
After seeing the driver had no major inquires, I feel like I made a pretty good purchase.
(Great warranty, too)

a reply to: o0oTOPCATo0o

My niece bought a Kia Soul a couple years ago. I was concerned for her as it was her first car, but now....👍👀

To add insult to injury, that truck tire hit the Kia again at the end before coming to a rest.

I laughed at those Kia Hamsters.

When I saw that pickup truck I knew it was going to be involved somehow.

The owner was probably running distance plates between the wheel and the wheel-axle platform. Either not suitable or mounted incorrectly.

IDK why people do it like this, in this case it makes the truck handling a lot worse, fenders won't stop dirt chunks from flying onto the chassis and it's dangerous because the running surface of the wheel itself is exposed.

I initially waiting for the left car touching the truck but didn't expect it to come off like that. Normally you feel a long time before the wheel comes off, that something is wrong.

originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: o0oTOPCATo0o

My niece bought a Kia Soul a couple years ago.

A fellow Souldier

a reply to: BernnieJGato

The neighbor kid had that problem. It was all I could do to get the lug nuts off with a 3/4 breaker bar and a 3 foot cheater bar. There was no was this 100 lb. kid was going to get them loose. Later that day I loosened all of he lug nuts and I had her put one back on with the lug wrench that came with the car. I took a torque wrench and measured the breaking torque of the nut. She was within 5 foot/lbs. of the correct torque. So I had her tighten them herself. That way she can get them off by herself.

a reply to: 727Sky

yep. lot of hate in that tyre/tire.
it was of course a leftie

a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed

We hit a set of speed strip running up on a turnpike gate when I was a kid, three of our hubcaps took off to three different corners. It was a lot like you see in a cartoon. We never did find them, and crawled all over those ditches for a solid half hour. It was clear that was where hubcaps went to die.