Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
Semi tire gets away on highway. Wait for it.
When my youngest was still a baby, but not yet toddling, we went to my Dad's place in Western Colorado so they could meet the newest grand-child. On the way home, going through the pass to Denver, there is a section of the highway that is a no-passing zone. I was in the left lane, up ahead of me a bit was a big white 4x4 truck pulling a horse trailer. Something told me not to be there, and I stomped on the gas pedal. Wife was chewing me out for passing when we heard this loud noise behind us. The entire driver's side front wheel, hub, etc., bounced through the space I'd just left. Because they didn't understand what had happened, all the traffic behind me (and it was bumper to bumper, 70MPH) slowed suddenly. It hit the side of the mountain, bounced back across the two lanes of traffic without hitting anyone, and over the side into the canyon. Nobody hurt. If I had not moved when I did, it would have hit just a little right of center on the windshield of my van, and gone through to take out me, and my little baby daughter in the seat behind me.* Wife quit chewing me out, and asked how I knew to step on it. I think my guardian angel was working OT that day.

Bill

*And all the traffic behind us would have piled up on our wreckage...