It's all been said Ted, just glad you're ok too.

I hear ya' buddy..

Hell Not once but twice this week i was near a truck when its tire went. The one today thankfully i was on the side of and it was the opposite side tire but wednesday I was behind one when it exploded and if it wasnt for my mad evassive driving skills I would have taken a full tire tread to the passanger side of my car at 70mph.

Holy Shit!!! That's crazy. I had to dodge a 2x4 once but goddamn! Glad you didn't have a passenger.

glad to see your ok..... people have died from such situations on our highways..its very important for us that might spot a piece of metal on the highways to call highway patrol asap when we spot such things. none of us would want to have a family member or friends encounter this type of danger on road trips..

Something similar happened to my bro's gf. A portion of a trucks leaf spring roughly 18" long got kicked up and broke through her windshield and landed in the passengers seat. That day we all came in from different directios so we all drove. Had the whole family been riding together... she woulda been gutted by the debris. Damage: broken windsheild, and ripped up seat/backrest.

CHP didn't let us drive her car home. They also told us that type of accident happens regularly with not so good outcomes.

Glad you were lucky.

Just a flesh wound

You are incredibly lucky! and/or it was obviously NOT your day to go! Wow! That is really scary! Ditto, glad you are okay! lj

Dude, I hope I never feel "your" pain and have that happen to us. The tire tread could have been worse, but good thing I was driving the X and not my Car.

I also used Safelite, got me done in less than a days notice.

Hope you can get your laptop fixed and I can't believe they would have towed your X in less than 48 hrs as that is the minimum time I can wait before towing abandoned vehicles at my work.

back in 2001 when my X was brand new, I hit some sheet metal and it took out my Step Rail.


When I was much younger, I was riding with my sister on I-880 and someone in front of her hit a pipe and sent it tumbling and it SPEARED her grill on her Oldsmobile. I remember being kinda scared, but still feeling safe inside the car.

While headed to Missouri on I-24 a year or so ago, we were about a quarter-mile behind an auto carrier full of new boat trailers. A wheel and tire fell off one of the top-most trailers and that thing had to have bounced 50 feet in the air. It bounced 2 or 3 times then rolled down an embankment. We got up next to the embankment and there had been a minor accident at the on-ramp below. The cop was standing there taking information from the drivers and the rogue wheel had rolled down the embankment and stopped right next to his cruiser.

I remember coming back from WI in I94 just north of Chicago there was a lady in an older VW golf in the lefft lane about 2-3 cars in front of us. Her front tire came lose along with the wheel. I bounced against the divider a few times while she was frantically trying to stop, and then it bounced over the divider, coming in contact with oncoming traffic creating breaking chaos and a minor pile-up.

There was this one time, I was driving a BMW and being a total dick, and I start tailgating this jerk in a white Xterra.

This idiot, he drives over a freakin' log in the middle of the freakin' road!
I was so far up his ass, I never saw the log until the last minute!
Tore up my airdam and ever'thing, man . . .

That Xterra guy . . . what a dick.

That goes back a good ways.....

Ouch.

YES IT DO...

I had one of these moments happen to me today.

I'm in the far left lane of a 3 lane highway. i decide to move into the middle lane and right after i check the blind spot and start making my move over, i look ahead and see a 4' by 4' or so piece of plywood come cartwheeling out of a truck that is in the middle lane a few car lengths ahead. after a quick swerve into the right lane, i watch it go by my window.

for doing about 70 the X handled it really well.

it was closer than i would have liked but accident avoided.

Glad to hear you are ok Ted. I have had several close calls with different things. But nothing ever came into the vehicle.

WOW! You should go buy a lottery ticket, Ted. A foot to the right and you'd be a hurtin.

I remember.

Ran over what appeared to be a tack strip for carpeting this morning, tailgater behind me almost got it in the windshield, hit his grill on a black 300. :rolleyes:

Damn....screw "tread Lightly" on the trails....You folks in AZ need that on the highway.

Dang, what's with all the road debris in PHX?

w.o.a.h

i don't know what it is with phoenixs highways, i live out in maricopa and they just scraped up the entire 347 going in and out of maricopa, had a duelly pick up a rock and actually carve away some of the glass on the passenger side, didn't crack it, just shaved it..glad you're alright man...no luck on ID'ing the 18wheeler?

The rediculous amount of road debris in PHX is due to the fact that we are one of the fastest growing areas of the country. Lots and lots of construction, and not all of the contruction folks tie their loads down properly.

Rocks on the road are also really common, as most people have "desert" (rocks) landscaping instead of lawns.