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To: eyeamok

By the way, many of those tires on the road have steel belts, those belts can rip your tires up/blow them out quickly. I know of at least two fatalities which a vehicle hit tire debris, blew a tire, lost control and caused multiple collisions/including fatalities.

Another a vehicle hit a large truck retread, kicked it up, the following vehicle hit it while in their air, with the 20 pound piece of retread thrown into oncoming lanes, going though a windshield, killing the driver instantly.


150 posted on 02/08/2015 1:43:18 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
By the way, many of those tires on the road have steel belts, those belts can rip your tires up/blow them out quickly.

I ran over an entire truck re-tread that had unpeeled itself and was lying in the road. I was driving an RV. Front-engine Class A. Took out the muffler/exhaust pipe, which then banged into the driveshaft, rendering it out of balance, then ripped off a bumper piece from the trailer I was towing, and the exhaust pipe chunked out one of the trailer tires. No way to avoid the tread - it was lying across the lane, and appeared to be the entire cap. There was a semi to my left, and a ditch to my right. Just had to ride it out.

I'm really glad I was pulling a trailer, and not my tow vehicle. It could have been even more expensive.

165 posted on 02/08/2015 2:15:15 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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