Same exact thing almost happened to me but I was driving a tractor trailer on the DC beltway
I was in right lane and pickup in middle lane little bit in front. Rt rear wheel popped off his truck and started bouncing down my lane about 10ft in the air right in front of me!
I was slowing down like crazy so I wouldn’t run into it. It finally found it’s way over to the shoulder where it hit a jersey barrier and flew up and over the side of the road.
Had to change my drawers after that!
Over torque is a heck of a thing.
One of our 18-wheelers had a tire come off. A man jumped out and tried to stop it. Of course, the tire flattened him. Our CEO said we should offer the guy a free lobotomy.
Wow, I can picture every mile of the DC Beltway, and it's a 360-degree heart attack waiting to happen even at 2 AM. Glad you survived!
My crazy car story is driving uphill in my remote exurban neighborhood on a very windy day, when some guys constructing a new house lost control of a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood and it spiraled up against the side of my moving car, scraping the paint all along the (empty) passenger side. Had I driven up one second earlier it might have hit point first into the front windshield.