Imagine driving along, minding your own business, when...

[Basil]

As the driver wasn't seriously hurt, this could be an add for Kia.

 

[Jerry]

Note the tires on the truck look oversized. I will predict that insurance companies (who will pay big for this crash) may stop insuring non stock tires on vehicles.

 

[Hamish Racing]

Wheel hub and disc came away !!
That is some accident to thankfully walk away from!!

 

[Popeye]

Imagine an lbc… shudder

 

[Basil]

Imagine an lbc… shudder

I doubt the outcome would have been was positive for the driver.

 

[YakkoWarner]

And the ultimate insult is that the tire comes back and hits the victim's Kia AGAIN from behind.....

 

[AngliaGT]

I was heading home on Interstate 81 last week,after visiting Duncan Imports
in Christiansburg,VA,when the semi in front of me suddenly switched lanes into
the fast lane.I slowed down & also switched lanes & then noticed a wheel/tire
going along the guardrail on the right side of the freeway.
I didn't see any car or truck without a wheel,so not sure where it came from.
Nothing got hit amazingly.I was in the '67 MGB GT.

 

[Basil]

I was heading home on Interstate 81 last week,after visiting Duncan Imports
in Christiansburg,VA,when the semi in front of me suddenly switched lanes into
the fast lane.I slowed down & also switched lanes & then noticed a wheel/tire
going along the guardrail on the right side of the freeway.
I didn't see any car or truck without a wheel,so not sure where it came from.
Nothing got hit amazingly.I was in the '67 MGB GT.

Yikes! Those kinds of incidents are scary!

A few years ago, I had driven my Corvette to Huntsville, AL on a business trip. On the way back I was driving along the 240 loop that runs along the southern part of Memphis. I was behind a white van that had a large ladder on the top that was held on with bungee cords! (No, I'm not making that up). I started to notice that the wind was catching the cardboard that the ladder was sitting on (I surmised to keep the ladder from scratching the top of the van). I kept noticing that the wind was lifting the cardboard and the ladder up, straining against the bungee cords. Luckily I had the presence of mind to back off and put more distance between myself and the van. About the time I backed off a few car lengths, "snap" the ladder came off the top of the van and started heading right for my car! It hit the ground in front of me, but I was able to veer left as the ladder, thankfully, went the other way. My heart was pounding like a jack hammer! Had I not noticed it and not backed off, that ladder would have come right through my windshield.

 

[YakkoWarner]

Had a very close call as a kid - riding with the family to visit out of state relatives on an interstate highway. My father was passing a truck carrying crushed scrap cars (stacked up to semi-trailer height) when a brake drum fell off one of the wrecks, bounced off the concrete and was coming straight for the passenger side windshield where I was sitting. My father was always one for very slow methodical driving, but he threw that big Chevy sideways on the interstate and the brake drum ended up putting a massive dent in the passenger door below the window instead. Truck driver never stopped or seemed to even be aware of what happened, this was way before dash cams and everyone having a cell phone in their pocket so the police couldn't do anything by the time it was able to be reported.

 

[John Turney]

Since we're relating stories, I was driving across the Martinez-Benicia Bridge when the wind blew a 4x8 sheet of plywood off a truck coming the other direction. Fortunately, it missed.