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but it never ceases to amaze my why people follow so close to flatbeds or other semis. Absolutely stupid.

The driver was behind the truck, but since the bar went in the passenger side, tat sounds like the car might well have been in the left lane.

You would also be surprised how far an object "falling" off of a highway speed vehicle might go or bounce.

A mid-sized truck driving on the rural state road in front of my house on northern Illinois lost a WHEEL and it bounced and rolled 600 feet before it hit my front porch, causing minor damage to the railing. The truck went a little farther before the occupants realized what happened. I gave them their wheel, and received neither thanks, nor an apology. Type of guys who don't know how to tight lug nuts, I guess.

Drivers do not carry the tool to tighten lug nuts. They are set my torque every 6 months. It the entire wheel detached, that was probably due to a busted hub seal that overheated and detached when the metal melted. That is the drivers fault for not checking.

I’ve seen a wheel bouncing down a highway from someone’s vehicle. Fully inflated, still on the rim. You know it had a lot of energy. Fortunately no one was hurt. Funny thing is I used to wonder what a loose tire on the road would look like. Now I know.